tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79746313646216484582024-03-19T08:48:40.670+00:00the new emotional blackmailer's handbook... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail
... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itselftristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.comBlogger2819125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-11963292576861214832024-03-13T13:37:00.011+00:002024-03-15T04:48:08.863+00:00Ganymede ... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_SwIoMq59yq_CLeuRHbSluhKVMySGpttmDJWTR1_p1MNGEaxrOLDqBMLlCZ2pQ84gl5i8I5doIAOtz8j2Oa08qusD21roYKAb2TS03EQGdB0BR_Wi3HJnPI4cyoiqwLp2d_AAQNX9LNpKzNXKFFLPjc9A5Omkle0JwoF-cTGYlSyB1TDAUnYvNMyuT0k/s2500/884054001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="2197" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_SwIoMq59yq_CLeuRHbSluhKVMySGpttmDJWTR1_p1MNGEaxrOLDqBMLlCZ2pQ84gl5i8I5doIAOtz8j2Oa08qusD21roYKAb2TS03EQGdB0BR_Wi3HJnPI4cyoiqwLp2d_AAQNX9LNpKzNXKFFLPjc9A5Omkle0JwoF-cTGYlSyB1TDAUnYvNMyuT0k/w351-h400/884054001.jpg" width="351" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In England, and wherever people speak that same language, the myth about Ganymede tends to be glossed over ... he is abducted by Jove in the form of an Eagle to live amongst the immortals as Jove's cup-bearer ... the bit that gets left out is the messy bit about forced sex between a male adult and a male child, or youth. This kind of sex was acceptable to the Greeks in ancient times, and remains a "fact of life" universally, although it is quite properly unacceptable to most people.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgXkkA7kziD9sw8MxICfV8vyVYBiuk7MgNKUc-fwNCIlcklC0gxeUimJ2EmbpnjlWvxxDPcR3Yv_6d6jXC6ftoIalkSwHjcvR9n6Y9XkKwv3TWUs0EoQDZZtqsDuq7K1uxiXL9Cztc-Wy0bChM46PND-tMyR8nU8Oujx6SCau3fXBffXDjDaQcp151pk/s3691/DP844289.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3691" data-original-width="2532" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEgXkkA7kziD9sw8MxICfV8vyVYBiuk7MgNKUc-fwNCIlcklC0gxeUimJ2EmbpnjlWvxxDPcR3Yv_6d6jXC6ftoIalkSwHjcvR9n6Y9XkKwv3TWUs0EoQDZZtqsDuq7K1uxiXL9Cztc-Wy0bChM46PND-tMyR8nU8Oujx6SCau3fXBffXDjDaQcp151pk/w275-h400/DP844289.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The THEOI website states ...</span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"GANYMEDES (Ganymede) was a handsome Trojan prince who was carried off to heaven by <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Zeus.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a6177;">Zeus</a> in the shape of an eagle where he was appointed as cup-bearer of the gods. Ganymedes was also placed amongst the stars as the <a href="https://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/star-myths.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a6177;">constellation</a> Aquarius, his ambrosial mixing cup as Crater, and the eagle as Aquila. Ganymedes was often portrayed as the god of homosexual love and as such appears as a playmate of the love-gods <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Eros.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a6177;">Eros</a> (Love) and <a href="https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/ErosHymenaios.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4a6177;">Hymenaios (Hymenaeus)</a> (Marital Love).</span></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBZpvVea2tXBu1yZovZAepirIQdWTVoDbAN9zr6mdd8zP856W9XYcxpSj6okJqdGWDdM6DTiQ-ZcRKVOgFkFv1C6yH6vb499WxrcywgkhkD_RIB-K0LIIFRnfeSIoGdjdwtmhNCJxjP311ULw7mmbeni1GuinGI6qhdYsQHfwRm6HfyZkdJtf62rcgM0/s1364/1_f1IxXGu-Czbb5ZQ4NaW-8w.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1126" data-original-width="1364" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBZpvVea2tXBu1yZovZAepirIQdWTVoDbAN9zr6mdd8zP856W9XYcxpSj6okJqdGWDdM6DTiQ-ZcRKVOgFkFv1C6yH6vb499WxrcywgkhkD_RIB-K0LIIFRnfeSIoGdjdwtmhNCJxjP311ULw7mmbeni1GuinGI6qhdYsQHfwRm6HfyZkdJtf62rcgM0/w400-h330/1_f1IxXGu-Czbb5ZQ4NaW-8w.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ganymedes was depicted in Greek vase painting as a handsome youth. In scenes of his abduction he holds a rooster (a lover's gift), hoop (a boy's toy), or lyre. When portrayed as the cup-bearer of the gods he pours nectar from a jug. In sculpture and mosaic art Ganymedes usually appears with shepherd's crock and a Phrygian cap.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The boy's name was derived from the Greek words <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">ganumai</em> "gladdening" and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">mêdon</em> or <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">medeôn</em>, "prince" or "genitals." The name may have been formed to contain a deliberate double-meaning."</span></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In comparitively recent times the mythical stereotypes have morphed, so that Ganymede is no longer snatched from innocence to debauchery by an Eagle ... in 20th Century Spain, on the roof of several insurance offices, he became a triumphant and heroic figure perched on the shoulder of ... wait for it ... the PHOENIX.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What were the Spaniards thinking ? And should we see it as symptomatic of the decadence of people whose notion of heroism was tainted with Imperialism and with deeply embedded cultural beliefs of racial superiority ? I would guess that the people who commissioned this sculpture lived in hope of the revival of Spain as a global power.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRAc9cUwAY_uYxs9LWsR2rjRYHTbxOypcF-DgzstUD-9A-nkP-UzCe1kBInwIRLi5TLJouQyJtMP9XFOZTMdYs6NeW-pxsa34o7VTAuuwxrJa9RCJkZt5PKZ3n63LxDsJTHD7RATuxa8VBB8TJMSsmbUeTvvlNfevKJMC2YnixuNV05HBkSmQkGqH0TA/s3665/Fenix_01.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3665" data-original-width="3101" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRAc9cUwAY_uYxs9LWsR2rjRYHTbxOypcF-DgzstUD-9A-nkP-UzCe1kBInwIRLi5TLJouQyJtMP9XFOZTMdYs6NeW-pxsa34o7VTAuuwxrJa9RCJkZt5PKZ3n63LxDsJTHD7RATuxa8VBB8TJMSsmbUeTvvlNfevKJMC2YnixuNV05HBkSmQkGqH0TA/w339-h400/Fenix_01.jpg" width="339" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The story of Ganymede was told many times in Ancient literature. Details vary. The classics website THEOI lists and quotes them all ...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Ganymedes.html"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Ganymedes.html</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-81343894164825557772024-03-11T21:11:00.005+00:002024-03-13T14:10:30.709+00:00the unicorn tapestries ... a lovely book from the met, published originally back in 1998, is available to read on the internet archive <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEnFPfQ7z8tdsm5_wXcxfmQQbxqisHNlaqcQTwgq11hSniPRcemsG70TXI3cYZFBDwoplq0WhiFtm8ruJxRFjQOqCEDN8QUvfcdSJWLdsdVTkbZqxT1GNPEWOEn2BrHZYs6OUG3sIY9mbjHbuyBNafkiD30UlM7Md5W3NS0BUDjKXxI9kHammjw_aqN8/s1657/unicorn%20tapestries%20front%20cover%20Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="1233" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEnFPfQ7z8tdsm5_wXcxfmQQbxqisHNlaqcQTwgq11hSniPRcemsG70TXI3cYZFBDwoplq0WhiFtm8ruJxRFjQOqCEDN8QUvfcdSJWLdsdVTkbZqxT1GNPEWOEn2BrHZYs6OUG3sIY9mbjHbuyBNafkiD30UlM7Md5W3NS0BUDjKXxI9kHammjw_aqN8/w298-h400/unicorn%20tapestries%20front%20cover%20Capture.PNG" width="298" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>internet archive accounts are free of charge</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/unicorntapestrie0000cava/mode/1up?view=theater">https://archive.org/details/unicorntapestrie0000cava/mode/1up?view=theater</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and the pages can be read at a high magnification</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAS-O2rrJyvwMtbXztNTzMxTnELhafJEHBSmmy_GLQekHj2b9IDcoxfCAipPGvB4YhdN4ZgrOubavOlQjLQ4tNPf89kBDQr9q0yUOn0DH1wn2vyvUThdlzAujucFeirQTv6t6l2UNCpLadQUHJDF108csgKk1nBkUJaPztwoR9vbNjdn6pmVFH1C8r1kM/s2562/unicorn%20tapestry%20detail%201%20Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1765" data-original-width="2562" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAS-O2rrJyvwMtbXztNTzMxTnELhafJEHBSmmy_GLQekHj2b9IDcoxfCAipPGvB4YhdN4ZgrOubavOlQjLQ4tNPf89kBDQr9q0yUOn0DH1wn2vyvUThdlzAujucFeirQTv6t6l2UNCpLadQUHJDF108csgKk1nBkUJaPztwoR9vbNjdn6pmVFH1C8r1kM/w400-h275/unicorn%20tapestry%20detail%201%20Capture.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>so feast your eyes</p><p><br /></p><p>and soak up some scholarship</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 2.125rem; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The 100 best nonfiction books: No 94 – Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651)</span></p><div class="dcr-1djovmt" data-gu-name="headline" id="geom_inter_1710164947905_54_10" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; grid-area: headline; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-14emo0l" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-1msbrj1" style="border: 0px; 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font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 92px; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: text-top;">A</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ccording to the 17th-century historian and gossip <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/13/brief-lives-john-aubrey-17th-century-writer-biography-historian" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--article-link-border); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John Aubrey</a>, Thomas Hobbes “was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men, he should have known no more than other men.” As a great thinker, Hobbes epitomises English common sense and the amateur spirit, and is all the more appealing for deriving his philosophy from his experience as a scholar and man of letters, a contemporary and occasional associate of Galileo, Descartes and the young Charles Stuart, prince of Wales, before the Restoration.</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; 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font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Did bring forth twins at once, both me, and fear.</em></span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Throughout his long life, Hobbes was never far either from the jeopardy of the times (notably the thirty years’ war and the English civil war) or the jeopardy sponsored by the brooding realism and pragmatic clarity of his philosophy. What, asked Hobbes, was the form of politics that would provide the security that he and his contemporaries longed for, but were always denied?</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><figure class="dcr-173mewl" data-spacefinder-role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" id="1f8928ce-cd98-4fab-a55f-0c311b8efb98" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; 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color: var(--caption-text); font-family: GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 18.9px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; padding: 6px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></figcaption></figure><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Subtitled <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil</em>, <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Leviathan</em> first appeared in 1651, during the Cromwell years, with perhaps the most famous title page in the English canon, an engraving of an omnipotent giant, composed of myriad tiny human figures, looming above a pastoral landscape with sword and crosier erect.</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thus “the Leviathan” (sovereign power) entered the English lexicon, and Hobbes’s vision of man as not naturally a social being, animated by a respect for community, but a purely selfish creature, motivated by personal advantage, became condensed into his celebrated summary of mankind’s existence as “solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short”.</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was Hobbes’s argument that, to ameliorate these conditions, man should adopt certain “Laws of Nature” by which human society would be forbidden to do “that which is destructive” of life, whereby virtue would be the means of “peaceful, sociable and comfortable living.”</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first law of nature is: “every man ought to endeavour peace”. This, he argues, will be a hard goal: the general inclination of all mankind is “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death”. The second law of nature is: “a man [must] be willing when others are so too … to lay down his right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.” The third law of nature is: “men performe their Covenants made.”</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This, in essence, adds up to Hobbes’s social contract, enforced by an external power. Accordingly, members of civil society should enter into a contract to confer their power and strength “upon one Man, or upon an Assembly of men … This done, the Multitude so united in one Person, is called a Common-wealth.” For Hobbes, the contracting of such power is the only guarantee of peace and prosperity: “During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is every man against every man.”</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Having witnessed the English revolution at first hand, it is war above all that Hobbes most fears. Social warfare empowers mankind’s darkest side: “Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hobbes is never less than ironical in his attitude to humanity’s appetite for “government”. He had seen too much debate, before and after the execution of Charles I, about the relationship between, citizen, church and state to be anything but pragmatic: “they that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.”</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For Hobbes, the “political community” is paramount, and individuals must surrender themselves for their own further and better protection: “he that complaineth of injury from his sovereign complaineth that whereof he himself is the author; and therefore ought not to accuse any man but himself; no nor himself of injury; because to do injury to one’s self, is impossible.”</span></p><div class="ad-slot-container offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right" style="-webkit-box-pack: center; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; justify-content: center; line-height: inherit; margin: 12px -380px 12px auto; max-width: 300px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div ad-label-text="Advertisement" aria-hidden="true" class="js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline2" data-label-show="true" data-link-name="ad slot inline2" data-name="inline2" id="dfp-ad--inline2" style="align-self: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 274px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="iab_sf" id="sf_pos_rel_el_safeframe-dfp-ad--inline2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 250px; line-height: inherit; margin: auto; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: inherit; width: 300px; z-index: 0;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="no" hidefocus="true" id="safeframe-dfp-ad--inline2" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://cdn.optoutadvertising.com/script/sf/r.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 250px; left: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: inherit; width: 300px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div></div></div><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As numerous commentators have observed, <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Leviathan</em> is the founding document of the “social contract theory” that would eventually flourish in the western intellectual tradition. It is also a majestic monument of 17th-century English prose, at once sinewy and vivid:</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power.</span></em></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hobbes also illuminates his argument with many delicious asides:</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.</span></em></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This comparison of the papacy with the kingdom of fairies (“that is, to the old wives’ fables in England concerning ghosts and spirits”) is a reminder of the philosopher’s pre-eminent wit and imagination. Combined with the economy, candour and irony of <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Leviathan</em> as a whole, it marks Hobbes out as one of the truly great writers in the English literary canon. But he is also a giant of western philosophy whose influence can be found in the work of Rousseau and Kant.</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not that his contemporaries understood this. “Hobbism” became a term of opprobrium, <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Leviathan</em> was publicly burnt as a seditious document, and Hobbes himself spent many of his later years in fear for his life. He died in 1679, suffering from Parkinson’s disease. According to Vanbrugh, on his deathbed he said he was “91 years finding out a hole to go out of this world, and at length found it.” His apocryphal last words were: “I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h2 id="a-signature-sentence" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A signature sentence</span></h2><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In such condition [of Warre], there is no place for Industry; because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continuall feare, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h2 id="three-to-compare" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 3px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Three to compare</span></h2><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">John Locke: <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Two Treatises of Government</em> (1690)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Hume: <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">A Treatise of Human Nature</em> (1739)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Paul Auster: <em class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">Leviathan</em> (1992)</span></p><p class="dcr-hm5hhe" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div></div></div></div>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-57291325089767210122024-03-10T19:55:00.006+00:002024-03-11T11:07:20.271+00:00franz stuck ... is best known as an expressive painter of latently erotic images ... but he was also a mighty fine designer ... here he made some impressive heraldic designs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkwF26sT55jcrd8pccQwistV5Rf5_8bD4vAPYxmu06wbZYl6SO4NzR8Y46gifu0Y5folYQgKzGf4jNc3BA7JVEDoeaRc0NI9StoACxLUgAJQW1wrJr2TXH4QxE4cSuEiSqiDaj2EyE6APGIDF9FjQX7rKPNGU2SZ92X3aLmSlr-yqfTDHy7X_TFOqWO4/s1500/gri_33125008889384_0266.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1130" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkwF26sT55jcrd8pccQwistV5Rf5_8bD4vAPYxmu06wbZYl6SO4NzR8Y46gifu0Y5folYQgKzGf4jNc3BA7JVEDoeaRc0NI9StoACxLUgAJQW1wrJr2TXH4QxE4cSuEiSqiDaj2EyE6APGIDF9FjQX7rKPNGU2SZ92X3aLmSlr-yqfTDHy7X_TFOqWO4/w301-h400/gri_33125008889384_0266.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>although i can't make much sense of the mottos</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu46FOQX3aHfRUKzGXtjUMnruroiieOSfn4YAnQIYfymJ-vkQckhpg7CyqeaUaAm2n5VXeelxR8EUsHjzrIjxAncZnWh8rKbFco8rN6i9Aroa8nQaXAClWRksdKPqeNBnoEvVmlyCpN_KGviYQfy7y3O_Gl9V5_VDWhzhQTZHHQnF9PKNm1Z6_RDl7U3M/s3840/Screenshot%20(3852).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu46FOQX3aHfRUKzGXtjUMnruroiieOSfn4YAnQIYfymJ-vkQckhpg7CyqeaUaAm2n5VXeelxR8EUsHjzrIjxAncZnWh8rKbFco8rN6i9Aroa8nQaXAClWRksdKPqeNBnoEvVmlyCpN_KGviYQfy7y3O_Gl9V5_VDWhzhQTZHHQnF9PKNm1Z6_RDl7U3M/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3852).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>in either of them ...</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGW4NCBpcdEBzXR8ZdmJT646IUq1p-mo-NSQrMje18K0_om7Yi9iQgZul56MxCDhwxxmYoX_-JXsfYNepj-FpkOgTC6d-TF6bspUM4Tz1oJnoXzJ2O5RrjYOt22sj3MHRNUhUK9VpR8CGp-mYSDXMwcPUgdpjKB_NVh9LVgfoixC8ahiLPSJunNcseUEY/s1500/gri_33125008889384_0316.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1130" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGW4NCBpcdEBzXR8ZdmJT646IUq1p-mo-NSQrMje18K0_om7Yi9iQgZul56MxCDhwxxmYoX_-JXsfYNepj-FpkOgTC6d-TF6bspUM4Tz1oJnoXzJ2O5RrjYOt22sj3MHRNUhUK9VpR8CGp-mYSDXMwcPUgdpjKB_NVh9LVgfoixC8ahiLPSJunNcseUEY/w301-h400/gri_33125008889384_0316.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbNuTdxkP0ajesuBm5iJnq_eEY0dRlAlqQAEyxJW64HwRgq0WEJYzUmN4sgF9H1dFoBiX4ycRkLVAez58BjARQLBHLaI8qTf4I6pJ_VF-Rd1byGHLlPItFXV5NOnCM8yGOqgB4rGxajtqEoG0nAJee2eid-otj6N-BlN7uAo0UmeC60Qp6ZCgie08dCc/s3840/Screenshot%20(3853).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbNuTdxkP0ajesuBm5iJnq_eEY0dRlAlqQAEyxJW64HwRgq0WEJYzUmN4sgF9H1dFoBiX4ycRkLVAez58BjARQLBHLaI8qTf4I6pJ_VF-Rd1byGHLlPItFXV5NOnCM8yGOqgB4rGxajtqEoG0nAJee2eid-otj6N-BlN7uAo0UmeC60Qp6ZCgie08dCc/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3853).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-737223970023014882024-03-10T08:30:00.004+00:002024-03-10T08:33:30.482+00:00frank thompson ( late, great ) ...<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some years back I published this picture on The MALMESBURY NOW AND THEN FACEBOOK PAGE</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some years after that, a lady named Kat Thompson contacted me, saying Frank was her father but she hardly knew him. She asked if I could write down a recollection for her. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">That was in April 2017, and I didn't see her message until the following October, by which time I was severely exhausted by my work and we were desperately home-seeking.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">At that time my hours were consumed with an exhausting driving job, and we were about to retire ( I was 68 years old ) and move from London to Tenby, so there was a delay of a whole year before I could settle down and respond. Inexcusable !</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span>So I only wrote it and sent it to Kat a whole year later in October 2018. </span><span>Kat had contacted me via Facebook Messenger, so I replied via that platform and attached my text as a Word File. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">There was a very long silence. Three and a half years later, in May 2022, I encountered a Sherston man, Pete Evans, at Sheila Evans funeral, and asked if he knew Kat, explaining how I had heard from her. He seemed to know nothing and his face showed no sympathetic expression. I wrote to him later but got no reply.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Then, in February 2024, Kat contacted me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">She hadn't known how to open the file I'd sent until then.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">I'd love to meet her sometime, to see how much of Frank is in her DNA, so to speak.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0wfWOdmciutpfXW1ZvxezXDDWtX5BEMiaPciwpWH7K_b-DxxY73NUP1qDAE15GwHmOfuWafOoI7XVNV5Ddpuhrz-7IeahiW1pf_S_flWsR_p0dKhPpj5k8HcqwWU3iNgkX5QG3R7nL1ENYIDY9aElSuq87XZ9YpHs5v9OI5ICeeFv37s_8_8rdb6n3Q/s1307/bert%20clifford%20henry%20wheeler%20frank%20thompson%20in%20the%20carpenters%20arms%201980ish.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1307" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs0wfWOdmciutpfXW1ZvxezXDDWtX5BEMiaPciwpWH7K_b-DxxY73NUP1qDAE15GwHmOfuWafOoI7XVNV5Ddpuhrz-7IeahiW1pf_S_flWsR_p0dKhPpj5k8HcqwWU3iNgkX5QG3R7nL1ENYIDY9aElSuq87XZ9YpHs5v9OI5ICeeFv37s_8_8rdb6n3Q/w330-h400/bert%20clifford%20henry%20wheeler%20frank%20thompson%20in%20the%20carpenters%20arms%201980ish.jpg" width="330" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;">The photograph shows Bert Clifford, Henry Wheeler, and a pensive and unusually dishevelled Frank Thompson, scrumpy in fist, probably fortified with gin. ... at the Carpenters Arms in Sherston ... 1980ish ... and at lunchtime by the angle of the sun.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There follows what little I remember of Frank Tho</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">mpson ... because I only
knew him a little. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">He was never hard to like but you’d have to see someone
regularly and have regular conversations to say you knew and understood
them. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">I’m trying to remember the first time I looked at him
closely. I was a stranger in the
Carpenters Arms. I was perhaps
twenty-two or three, so maybe it was in 1972. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">I’d entered what I’d imagined to be a quaint old country pub on a sunny
autumn afternoon, expecting to find quaint old agricultural labourers and
instead being almost dazzled by three men in their maybe mid-thirties, very
smart in shiny new but slightly old-fashioned suits and deep film-star suntans,
who were full of laughter and song and were as comfortably relaxed as if they’d
owned the place. They were like young
gods, but drank as if they had no intention of getting old.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">To my art-schooled-eyes, Frank looked like an heroic
Michelangelo figure, thinly disguised as a teddy boy. Just now I thought of describing Frank in that moment as a kind of cross between Hercules and Apollo, when they were young and untroubled. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The fashion trends and hair-styles of the
nineteen sixties, which had taken various spectacular forms in popular culture,
had somehow passed un-noticed in the Carpenters Arms. In those days it was an isolated refuge from
modernity. These men had a nineteen-fifties look. That afternoon I was with
some friends who were all younger than these three, and so we didn’t join them
but sat close-by in the very small backroom with its thick ancient walls, tiny
windows, utilitarian bare floors, and puritanically scrubbed and bleached
little tables. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">We’d stepped back in
time, quite a long way back, it seemed.
Frank, and his companions Phil Pegler and John Evans filled the room
with raucous jollity, singing tiny snatches of old Dean Martin and Frank
Sinatra songs, so old it suggested an arrested development had held them
lightly somehow for fifteen or twenty years.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">The first time Frank and I properly spoke was five or six years later,
maybe 1977 when I went to live at Foxley and began to visit the Carpenters on
Saturday nights and Sunday lunchtimes.
In those five years Frank had become a quieter man, no less
handsome. I came to admire the gentle
courteous nature of him, and to envy his Herculean stature and open gaze.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Yes, a solitary man, happy to be at his own
little table, whose distinguishing character was that unfailing courtesy and
sweetness of voice, and a raw startling beauty.
Now and again we’d take a hand in a game of crib, though I think it
wasn’t a game that interested him much, he was just making up the numbers for
the company perhaps. In those times I
never knew him to show an interest in any thing new. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">It might have been Frank who showed me how to
fortify The Carpenters’ notoriously unpalatable scrumpy with a measure of gin. I tried it a few times, was beguiled, but then
quickly realized it wasn’t part of a sustainable lifestyle. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">His one small passion was a nostalgia for the
Sherston of his younger years. Oddly, he
carried a small sheath of very old cinema programmes in his jacket pocket and
he once handed them to me to see if I shared his enthusiasm for the films that
had captivated his boyish imagination. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">I was working in Malmesbury at the end of the 1970s when a
friend asked me to collect a plumber from a pub in town and drive him out to a
cottage in Minety to fit some new taps.
When I got to the pub to collect the plumber, there was Frank in a crisp
white shirt, open-necked, and with a few tools neatly wrapped in a hessian sack
that lay at his elbow on the table where he drank. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">He’d aged a little, was heavier, but was as
placid and confident and courteous as I’d come to take for granted. He had a quiet and gentle way of conversation
that made you feel like old friends from the start. As we drove out towards Minety I quietly
marvelled at the huge plumber’s hands and wondered how this big man might fit
himself in to the intricate corners of modern kitchens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Not long after that, I saw a rare demonstration of Frank’s
old-fashioned code of honour, which he’d probably learned at the cinema from
Hollywood actors like Alan Ladd or John Wayne.
John Evans, unlike Frank, had become a difficult kind of drunk. Whist John was often the life and soul of the
party, he had few inhibitions and he was always likely to upset the evening
with little or no regard for anyone’s feelings, or for his own safety. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">One evening John said something toxically
unkind to Pat, the lady behind the bar in The Carpenters, and it was not for
the first time. Everyone there overheard
it and all were deeply embarrassed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">There was a very short and awkward silence before Frank got up and he quietly but insistently accompanied John from the premises through the back
door, and sent him home via the unlit back yard with a thick lip. He then resumed his seat just as quietly,
asked no praise, made no comment, and the incident was never mentioned
again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">Not long after that, to the surprise of the regulars, Frank
began to show up at The Carpenters with a woman who seemed to match him in fine
looks and sweet temper. She’d have made
an excellent artist’s model for Rubens or Rembrandt or Renoir. She was both picturesque and ornamental, and
how I envied him. Everyone liked her,
and in no time, just as I was leaving Foxley and abandoning The Carpenters, I
heard that they might marry. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Years passed. I’d left
Malmesbury altogether and gone to work in Brighton, but had often drifted back
to visit old friends and family, and would sometimes stay for a day or two to
wander. One morning, just before
catching a bus that began the homeward journey, I discovered Frank sitting in
the back room of the little shop </span>in the Cross Hayes that sold antiques and second-hand furniture . </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">He was jaundiced and bony and a very sad sight. He made a
space for me beside him and I sat there for a while, knowing from first glance that I
might never see him again, and we talked a little about our changed
worlds. John Evans and Phil
Pegler had not long left the planet, and Frank knew his days were few. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">He told me that he was staying in Malmesbury
with Ray and Grace, whose shop it was, and that they were caring for him. Apart from his fatigue, Frank was his old
sweet self, never a trace of complaint or self-pity, nor any bitterness or
regret. All I can remember from the
conversation is my surprise and delight when, in a moment of sweet pathos,
Frank pulled out from his jacket pocket those same old cinema programmes and
offered them for me to show an interest.
I did, and then we parted, myself with as heavy a heart then as now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tristan Forward, 24<sup>th</sup> October 2018, in Tenby.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-4002244276779146602024-03-09T15:16:00.004+00:002024-03-09T15:28:26.123+00:00time before time ... from the British Museum ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGUKUnJjBVUU8TI2f-A2DtP6EVoTSwfqFSmwSm2NwoLQ_3Rz3OrYvBneBfIAUk3geLACvtrr-3f5jrxJBuuiPjDrt9QnpbmUyzjPLffv46-On7Ah2y7XAIGEyRVNtYNH8sg4xEaox5YOhCTnX6jbImyBEEx1rhJ_o6zu5hLOVwoJT0_0Mipd7GB2vRUw4/s2500/148717001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="2424" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGUKUnJjBVUU8TI2f-A2DtP6EVoTSwfqFSmwSm2NwoLQ_3Rz3OrYvBneBfIAUk3geLACvtrr-3f5jrxJBuuiPjDrt9QnpbmUyzjPLffv46-On7Ah2y7XAIGEyRVNtYNH8sg4xEaox5YOhCTnX6jbImyBEEx1rhJ_o6zu5hLOVwoJT0_0Mipd7GB2vRUw4/w388-h400/148717001.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>If you already had ...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 18px;">An oval astronomical compendium. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It comprises a wind-rose, a table of latitudes, an equinoctial sundial, a compartment to hold a compass (now missing), a shallow compartment the purpose of which is unknown, and a nocturnal. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The wind-rose is marked with the names of 32 directions in a pattern used on other instruments of the same period. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The latitude-table lists 25 major European cities in England and on the continent with latitude values as known from contemporary sources. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The equinoctial sundial consists of an hour-ring engraved on both sides for the two halves of the year, and a gnomon, set by a quadrant with a latitude scale.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The hour ring is engraved with the name of the maker as 'R Grinkin Fecit'. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The nocturnal is constructed in a way first used by Humfrey Cole in 1590.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>... and if you had subsequently acquired ...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJXjSLrSXH54WKWOrrPrRdLJPIlhO-a2lLzJDgzwNWKQfAnHkIcN-xXkHHDa8hyj0dOet0G-09_DwJrY51mKxlOMVbe2piWrQEd-LbAzwazi76wa1BkrUHaBoKSEPrljRLbZaskvM4u57crhRpZlxpsMobBQNHOk6_LaKG5YIZRxwZhtdiZSVRcm9Y6Y/s2500/243629001%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="2049" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJXjSLrSXH54WKWOrrPrRdLJPIlhO-a2lLzJDgzwNWKQfAnHkIcN-xXkHHDa8hyj0dOet0G-09_DwJrY51mKxlOMVbe2piWrQEd-LbAzwazi76wa1BkrUHaBoKSEPrljRLbZaskvM4u57crhRpZlxpsMobBQNHOk6_LaKG5YIZRxwZhtdiZSVRcm9Y6Y/w328-h400/243629001%20(1).jpg" width="328" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">GOLD PAIR-CASED VERGE CLOCK-WATCH<br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />LONDON, 1693<br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />SIGNED: 'D. Quare London 0233'<br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />The celebrated London watchmaker Daniel Quare was a Quaker, born in Somerset, who became a Brother in the Clockmakers' Company in London in 1671, later serving as Master of the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Company in 1708. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Around 1715 he went into partnership with one of his former apprentices Stephen Horseman, and, following Quare's death in 1724, Horseman carried on the business until he was declared bankrupt in 1733. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Quare's reputation was built on fine clocks and watches as well as a series of high-quality barometers, of which several survive. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This does not mean that Quare made all the pieces himself. Like so many makers of the time he doubtless relied on other craftsmen to supply his materials. It is known, for instance, that he used the expertise of Joseph Williamson to produce a number of sophisticated longcase clocks with equation of time indication. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Quare was not only involved in horological pursuits; as well as owning land, he had a half share in the trade of the East Country Company with a fellow watchmaker, Francis Stamper, and also had land interests with the Quaker community in America.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />This typical example of Quare watchwork shows why London was beginning to lead the world in watchmaking towards the end of the seventeenth century.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> Clock-watches, which automatically strike the hour like a clock, had existed since the early years of the watch in the first quarter of the sixteenth century. However, in London, following the introduction of the balance spring, their popularity seems to have been in decline. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The quality of this watch is self-evident, with a finely pierced and engraved balance cock and tulip-form movement pillars. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">To control the striking, there is a small silver count wheel, which measures out the blows struck by a hammer on the bell housed inside the back of the inner case.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />The finely fashioned gold dial matches the gold pair-cases made for Quare by William Jaques, whose mark, 'WI', appears in both cases. Jaques was one of the leading casemakers in London at the end of the seventeenth century, and ran one of the more prolific workshops of the time, making cases not only for Quare but also for many other makers, including Joseph Windmills, Simon Decharmes and John Bushman. Born around 1665, in 1679 Jaques was apprenticed in the Clockmakers' Company, first to John Wright and then to Nathaniel Delander. In 1687 Jaques became a Freeman in the Clockmakers' Company and went on to serve as Master of the Company in 1716. His address was Angel Court, Snow Hill. When he died in 1719, the business was carried on by his widow, Sarah, who went into partnership with the casemaker John Lee, one of Jaques's former apprentices.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />The cases of this watch show the high-quality workmanship of William Jaques and his workshop. To allow the sound of the bell to escape, the outer case bezel is pierced with a series of graded roundels which alternate with baskets of flowers. The decoration of the case band echoes this design, and carries four portrait busts, two of them possibly of King William III and Queen Mary. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The inner case is finely pierced with foliate scrolls, strapwork and birds and, in the middle of the back, a shield of arms: 'vairé argent and sable, a fesse gules, crest: a stump of a tree proper raguly argent. 'These are the arms of the Bracebridge family, of Atherstone Hall in Warwickshire, but also with branches in Lincolnshire and Suffolk. However, the style of the shield suggests that the arms 'were probably engraved at a later date and are not those of the first owner. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Another clue to the history of the watch is a scratched inscription under the bell, which reads 'T. Dutton, Walsall Dec. 1830'. This suggests that the watch was repaired by Thomas Dutton, a clock- and watchmaker who was married in Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1815 and worked there until 1865.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>... and if you became concerned about some seasonally divergent anomalies between the old expensive sundial and your expensive new clock-watch ...</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">... then this might help to calm your anxiety and agitation ...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1LDnaCG6WiOvTT95ircztiw4vs1475McZCTF11_PHo7H1rY_BiXIUhtvcFoJxxrPLaYlOKfPubwwCFkU8d2CV-lo5EAoYljnVwtEk3MUVGH9UZQROWjA6bcLnMHPidDsJgkvsJnxncGEGDzcMAMkNzVEds_48dX9eFFI46NYnLZfJD9dxPYQIFGcYGZI/s2500/308769001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1529" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1LDnaCG6WiOvTT95ircztiw4vs1475McZCTF11_PHo7H1rY_BiXIUhtvcFoJxxrPLaYlOKfPubwwCFkU8d2CV-lo5EAoYljnVwtEk3MUVGH9UZQROWjA6bcLnMHPidDsJgkvsJnxncGEGDzcMAMkNzVEds_48dX9eFFI46NYnLZfJD9dxPYQIFGcYGZI/w245-h400/308769001.jpg" width="245" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The trade card of Richard Street, clockmaker, at ye Dial and Two Crowns, over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet Street, London; clock face with two crowns above, with large equation of time table below.</span></span></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-31165191636369130262024-03-07T17:07:00.029+00:002024-03-11T10:43:25.501+00:00concordia parux res crescunt ... THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' motto revised ... PARODY AND / OR PASTICHE ? ... i never clearly understood the distinction between pastiche and parody ... maybe this little work of art condenses both senses into one creation ... first, the variant ... then, the original ...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1v8u6JxuB8NbQyeCovOrsYl8odw8OrcHKcQsTr1uH4Gt1e7mf6lOgDxZut6vo4T5OwTzuPqHo8yK1up4FgRVa6vp35Mmqhc9Kt4J1PZJ7k0RQ_EAyvjRuWsdveqp6H5osNAbFc1hezp5CwkI4AD2FhwPUk4TK25WNCXD1wJbqBQ0hbwfMeZsYQ5lQjA/s3226/merchant%20taylors%20parody%20few%20things%20grow%20in%20harmony.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1856" data-original-width="3226" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1v8u6JxuB8NbQyeCovOrsYl8odw8OrcHKcQsTr1uH4Gt1e7mf6lOgDxZut6vo4T5OwTzuPqHo8yK1up4FgRVa6vp35Mmqhc9Kt4J1PZJ7k0RQ_EAyvjRuWsdveqp6H5osNAbFc1hezp5CwkI4AD2FhwPUk4TK25WNCXD1wJbqBQ0hbwfMeZsYQ5lQjA/w400-h230/merchant%20taylors%20parody%20few%20things%20grow%20in%20harmony.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wQUWQ25JtYVNWmLtsuOlpHW5EQFM_sqgBqE3gIHAk_uA9iKXwlOAFGW9fdQXlerDvYBamIzVdwyWAky0QTBlsZ3IQhthDnbUzmNM8Pkr5LCGSijSm6iac_zNCTnBFnG6dE5_Bumgf1epsBWcRt4-azQcGqRpnc8NH9wYJs1NeHg2-4Tqw4OQqQ9tPeY/s1410/merchant%20taylors%20IMG_7946%20(1280x935)-1500x1500.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="1410" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-wQUWQ25JtYVNWmLtsuOlpHW5EQFM_sqgBqE3gIHAk_uA9iKXwlOAFGW9fdQXlerDvYBamIzVdwyWAky0QTBlsZ3IQhthDnbUzmNM8Pkr5LCGSijSm6iac_zNCTnBFnG6dE5_Bumgf1epsBWcRt4-azQcGqRpnc8NH9wYJs1NeHg2-4Tqw4OQqQ9tPeY/w400-h285/merchant%20taylors%20IMG_7946%20(1280x935)-1500x1500.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">THE MERCHANT TAYLORS GUILD is very nearly seven hundred years old and is rightly proud of its status and its achievements.</span></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Merchant_Taylors"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Merchant_Taylors</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3K3QM4GTfPFfp4H-SaCsXE2dksBCfIDUrSEOSEcCQYSgAeEiZMGQOpnVmqvtCvFl5Q_6_OsKHF8IY3Jg4YlPme-z8sByV-3ioMF-JHIBq7i0uzKs0pJszUU7bM8gZiCaVp_yhmpWt2IT7Sp9UdxHdQhAypMtWX_J_ZTYS-rONPyqrohiwZElb-5tQWfs/s3543/Worshipful_Company_of_Merchant_Taylors_Arms.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3543" data-original-width="3543" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3K3QM4GTfPFfp4H-SaCsXE2dksBCfIDUrSEOSEcCQYSgAeEiZMGQOpnVmqvtCvFl5Q_6_OsKHF8IY3Jg4YlPme-z8sByV-3ioMF-JHIBq7i0uzKs0pJszUU7bM8gZiCaVp_yhmpWt2IT7Sp9UdxHdQhAypMtWX_J_ZTYS-rONPyqrohiwZElb-5tQWfs/w400-h400/Worshipful_Company_of_Merchant_Taylors_Arms.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><span class="mw-headline"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Official Blazon</span></b></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Arms :</b> Argent, a pavilion imperial purple [i.e. crimson] garnished Or [lined ermine] between two mantles also imperial purple [lined ermine]; on a chief azure a lion passant [guardant] gold.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Crest:</b> On a wreath argent and azure, On a mount vert a lamb argent in sunbeams Or. Mantled gules, doubled argent.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Supporters:</b> On either side a camel Or.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Motto:</b> Concordia parvae res crescunt</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span id="Origin.2Fmeaning"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="Origin/meaning">Origin/meaning</span></span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The arms were officially granted on 23 December 1586 to replace an earlier grant of 23 October 1481.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The new grant substituted a lion of England for the holy lamb on the chief, and to replace the crest of Virgin and Child with a secular version of the holy lamb: "a lambe silver in the sonne beames golde"; the camel supporters were also added at this time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While it is possible that suppression of the religious symbols was a late effect of the Reformation, it is at least equally likely that the change was due to a desire to conform to a more austere taste in heraldry. A number of guilds had expediently secularized their arms during the period of the Reformation, and as late as 1582 the Parish Clerks had sought a new grant because their arms were " over muche charged with certayne superstition ".</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The arms show an pavilion and two mantles, both indicating the trade of a tailor. Initially the guild consisted of tailors and armourers, the latter making the inner, textile, layers of armory. But already by the time of the 2nd charter, many members were more merchants as tailors. The name, however, was not changed. The pavilion which survives in the current arms was no doubt inspired by the similar canopy in which the Virgin sits in the 1481 crest; such canopies of dignity are familiar accompaniments to religious personages in art, and are similarly used in the arms of the Upholders.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Both the ancient crest of Virgin and Child, and the holy lamb allude to the Company's origin as a fraternity of St. John the Baptist, deriving as religious emblems from the Gospel of St. John</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The lion of England on the chief refers to the royal charter granted by Henry VII, and the royal patronage is alluded to by this royal charge.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The camels first appear as supporters in 1586, but it is clear that the animal was already an established symbol of the Company. A camel was in fact an habitual feature of Merchant Taylors' pageants in the sixteenth century, and it may be that the beast was intended as a reference to the eastern trade of the Merchant Company, as was the camel crest of the Grocers, but no evidence has been found to confirm this.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It has also been speculated that the camels are a further reference to St. John Baptist, who, according to tradition, often is shown as wearing a camel fur cloak.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The exact origin thus is not clear.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The motto is a quotation from Gaius Sallustius Crispus: </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxumae dilabuntur", with harmony small things grow, while with discord the mightiest are ruined.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>SO FAR SO GOOD ...</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I knew nothing of the Merchant Taylors until yesterday when i came across an unusual piece of artwork in a surprising place.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was looking for images of unicorns and phoenixes in heraldic contexts and was scanning through some rare books that are freely available on-line through <b>archive.org</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008889384/page/n261/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008889384/page/n261/mode/2up</a></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After looking at hundreds of images my weary eye was caught by a design that lacked conventional balance or symmetry.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yer tiz ...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sMUD7lQjtN0bu-4JdJoeaigcWOCC9pZ8JGKBuoQbwCphwXUOMjgT3TBg8UPtM8doLvDj6XNLZpAenAiXp5isImbN0oNok9kOJclLY6o5sZwtFzUjt4gkI55icPJlwTLda4wAQ_UX7YqzkC0nH12gd9lJG_FV1F93ZvBa0NKiRkzofM8qfgkubARsI8g/s2760/concordia%20parunt%20res%20crescunt%20Capture.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1694" data-original-width="2760" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8sMUD7lQjtN0bu-4JdJoeaigcWOCC9pZ8JGKBuoQbwCphwXUOMjgT3TBg8UPtM8doLvDj6XNLZpAenAiXp5isImbN0oNok9kOJclLY6o5sZwtFzUjt4gkI55icPJlwTLda4wAQ_UX7YqzkC0nH12gd9lJG_FV1F93ZvBa0NKiRkzofM8qfgkubARsI8g/w400-h245/concordia%20parunt%20res%20crescunt%20Capture.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">CONCORDIA PARUX RES CRESCUNT</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I don't read Latin but quickly found a translation using the Google App.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCE9_7Zd03bu4XRlks6APlWo1IKfE-MqU-CleERcuiWUuNW-0aFwQqM5AzqG_8GBtEvVFcUBk_pEIM7C5ptrVcr8UUprqGoZNlRkhuB00zPZaq4Z2atFZMG_cY6-CdtQY8akDr7-uq7O-_w7QvC08QHvJtG5Z9MB7PppxgVuO5HgYzPPZdeOtUNl0gOM/s2048/417539740_10232175310424249_6106415225231591928_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCE9_7Zd03bu4XRlks6APlWo1IKfE-MqU-CleERcuiWUuNW-0aFwQqM5AzqG_8GBtEvVFcUBk_pEIM7C5ptrVcr8UUprqGoZNlRkhuB00zPZaq4Z2atFZMG_cY6-CdtQY8akDr7-uq7O-_w7QvC08QHvJtG5Z9MB7PppxgVuO5HgYzPPZdeOtUNl0gOM/w400-h225/417539740_10232175310424249_6106415225231591928_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Waggish ! ... innit ? and seems appropriate in the context of the iconoclastic imagery.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So, wondering where it came from, I subsequently arrived at the original Merchant Taylors' motto ... sideways, so-to-speak ... and learned that it had itself been derived from the Roman historian, Sallust.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Full explanation here ...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.merchant-taylors.co.uk/news/the-company-motto">https://www.merchant-taylors.co.uk/news/the-company-motto</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzgjQDSRC9_2XNu5JORN7lgbPIvrBoa4fVgTzWs4o4B7cvnLL0y8VoVhWirDiaItzobOZve4rS1zQfl_bTp6OMc8NuS19Sy9smFfv9Q-f2abjzIPPlyb5QDWpdFmC9cvXhR3JF1QaEgGmeLoXoPbplKxak4hh7buS9an42bIbDuTTXGc-Tfc06CnLzQiE/s2048/merchant%20taylors%20motto%20417513000_10232175413266820_3555316054139804871_n.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzgjQDSRC9_2XNu5JORN7lgbPIvrBoa4fVgTzWs4o4B7cvnLL0y8VoVhWirDiaItzobOZve4rS1zQfl_bTp6OMc8NuS19Sy9smFfv9Q-f2abjzIPPlyb5QDWpdFmC9cvXhR3JF1QaEgGmeLoXoPbplKxak4hh7buS9an42bIbDuTTXGc-Tfc06CnLzQiE/w400-h225/merchant%20taylors%20motto%20417513000_10232175413266820_3555316054139804871_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Well, as you can guess, I was highly amused, and remain deeply impressed by the artist's wit and subtlety.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And my pleasure was amplified by the improbability of having found it in an antique German book held in a Californian library.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqQ2LfapvDZ9eV43si3ZtZ1nfXWB5fzrQ3VUrT4zXt4DqiZmmGS019-2FZeMwtM4d6KFAPPvYRpkk9K-W3fEa5vPS94TQ2aivrOmyjjmutjfx5Ql3hjyCMufEu_KnQUJJC4XOPJcQRi911Muuj52EZ6o_LKEP2uLhsNuZrf5JZRpf5LwJ2HBqlzVi0NMM/s1888/allegorien%20und%20embleme%20cover%20Capture.PNG" style="clear: left; 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color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFI0JXIVhsN2S4sQe9wy1X4G8SrI1XsNBFkP8oDn_afXz6F5-fJyyG9V92rTGTpKyL_SNa8HCf9jt9FJY6_64QsnzDUvqE-Nw-W3gnTJLl9XcytMbMaV78edV9JTj7wuk3NwUUFGv4Q3blR2A83tSIrnf3UsE1SLxAyDkQy1G6U_K6Pva-pKDZ3wnnp9k/s1892/merchant%20taylors%20cloth%20workers%20haberdashers%20Capture.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1892" data-original-width="1369" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFI0JXIVhsN2S4sQe9wy1X4G8SrI1XsNBFkP8oDn_afXz6F5-fJyyG9V92rTGTpKyL_SNa8HCf9jt9FJY6_64QsnzDUvqE-Nw-W3gnTJLl9XcytMbMaV78edV9JTj7wuk3NwUUFGv4Q3blR2A83tSIrnf3UsE1SLxAyDkQy1G6U_K6Pva-pKDZ3wnnp9k/w290-h400/merchant%20taylors%20cloth%20workers%20haberdashers%20Capture.PNG" width="290" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">So the big question was ... how do we discover the name of the artist ?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The artist's initials appear to be H. K.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">British ? or German ? After all, Latin was a widely used language.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Elsewhere I found the same artist had signed himself H KAUFMANN MUNCHEN, so the litho was made in Germany, for publication in Vienna.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">And is this 1882 German lithograph derived from an English source ?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Perhaps from a tapestry or a carpet design ?</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKCxOTouWsX74QfZdM_hF816dhH6RHU5gtU8JZOHL8Ot7Y3GqBuk7dQXlVsKsgKluMZsUu49aXr4QXUqC8XIN4bVC5E2eROKoK2PyUyOtKZhdHZDAyBeQ5WrwEp2iMv50bDPaPDwdVhKB9rpvlvf-0E7hiLNFsTHQAK_oDpZC5vgueCw-ygXTsUkKSOU/s2585/merchant%20taylors%20parody%20artist%20Capture.PNG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="2585" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKKCxOTouWsX74QfZdM_hF816dhH6RHU5gtU8JZOHL8Ot7Y3GqBuk7dQXlVsKsgKluMZsUu49aXr4QXUqC8XIN4bVC5E2eROKoK2PyUyOtKZhdHZDAyBeQ5WrwEp2iMv50bDPaPDwdVhKB9rpvlvf-0E7hiLNFsTHQAK_oDpZC5vgueCw-ygXTsUkKSOU/w400-h175/merchant%20taylors%20parody%20artist%20Capture.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIj3gSh1q_qoNjeED7peA5M5S3gtCMcb48ghp_A8ho5DSXULm7CiZedToO2I-bPScwcezchmAO7IH4i7YOlqZmTGY-lT15t1cWWiLjzVforGqTyWJ6wULsHaVIRSemHUQtNe2k8LeqVd_bhCKJvRMILxohdLs49mAK1kjWZObVPLy7JpCq-MReD4UpSzE" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1198" data-original-width="2496" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIj3gSh1q_qoNjeED7peA5M5S3gtCMcb48ghp_A8ho5DSXULm7CiZedToO2I-bPScwcezchmAO7IH4i7YOlqZmTGY-lT15t1cWWiLjzVforGqTyWJ6wULsHaVIRSemHUQtNe2k8LeqVd_bhCKJvRMILxohdLs49mAK1kjWZObVPLy7JpCq-MReD4UpSzE=w400-h193" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>fortunately ... the beginning of Volume 2 had some scrupulously catalogued detail about the lithographers' who contributed ... although the old-fashioned Gothic typography strained my mind as well as my eyes ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Amusingly and understandably, the book's editor seems to have decided that the Merchant Taylors' arms were those of a tent-maker ( Zeltmacher ) ...</p><p><br /></p><p>But we have a name for the lithographer ... it looks like ... D? KAUFMANN</p><p><br /></p><p>... although so far I have found no corroborative evidence for this ID ...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZ5TfhsBK90xaN-eRv3M89i-kfRHrH17G5hgi_Rmm3K7tNz4heN3D7BsxGYDv6I-WPTMjET8W71By7MjpGXYtY1Gs7RQM_Sfymz10gyo5ccbaLDpuEx70A4LkintKvsMG8ZL7K1fl9IkIQfW5vwp07PjPMgd3gUOr-bMRmRebdcwaLwzpp8yGBgendXg/s3840/Screenshot%20(3820).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZ5TfhsBK90xaN-eRv3M89i-kfRHrH17G5hgi_Rmm3K7tNz4heN3D7BsxGYDv6I-WPTMjET8W71By7MjpGXYtY1Gs7RQM_Sfymz10gyo5ccbaLDpuEx70A4LkintKvsMG8ZL7K1fl9IkIQfW5vwp07PjPMgd3gUOr-bMRmRebdcwaLwzpp8yGBgendXg/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3820).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitOpHX-bPidPADuTYQpLJt1Q8zRu6suwbo3Q2r3be_uQ5q6CUrxNNRJK3avObiqTECSa_KTsBBX7Z4dwZtJcawXxDTc28CqySyHfU2Xs_cTt6DRGDLaPm1fDxv-m_Q8W5aKbmZQhq23Viqfn4mtAvQEJ6JDSZh78XDGij3chqyMvWzjg0KA35I7XJELxM/s3840/Screenshot%20(3841).png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitOpHX-bPidPADuTYQpLJt1Q8zRu6suwbo3Q2r3be_uQ5q6CUrxNNRJK3avObiqTECSa_KTsBBX7Z4dwZtJcawXxDTc28CqySyHfU2Xs_cTt6DRGDLaPm1fDxv-m_Q8W5aKbmZQhq23Viqfn4mtAvQEJ6JDSZh78XDGij3chqyMvWzjg0KA35I7XJELxM/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3841).png" width="400" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>so, not only, but also ...</p><p>the book's German-speaking editor had ( possibly, maybe ) quite understandably mistaken the Merchant Taylors' emblem for that of a TENTMAKER ... zeltmacher !</p><p><br /></p><p>But is it a mistake ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Later on, I remembered that tents were a big purchase item for market traders, armies and generals, even diplomats and kings .... think: field of the cloth of gold, etc</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNQP1B7mxqEW7DvO0XmWMgoAL-UXyU1JlBI26-p_H840XitUg04nLrSG5S66FFqzITpmxYLQ0YToYqjIBnLreUS7vUdqRDC1F19S-UAEqSKMHGtQMQ8Fl3olisD3eN9JR-l-xpNe-QWphSOB7JH-9LFEuLEXqxhrOoD0s5hX-gdZGmCvra4bOoUGngj4/s3840/Screenshot%20(3848).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNQP1B7mxqEW7DvO0XmWMgoAL-UXyU1JlBI26-p_H840XitUg04nLrSG5S66FFqzITpmxYLQ0YToYqjIBnLreUS7vUdqRDC1F19S-UAEqSKMHGtQMQ8Fl3olisD3eN9JR-l-xpNe-QWphSOB7JH-9LFEuLEXqxhrOoD0s5hX-gdZGmCvra4bOoUGngj4/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3848).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p>SO I AM CURRENTLY STUMPED BY THREE QUESTIONS ...</p><p><br /></p><p>The proper name and any biographical detail of the 19thC lithographer.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original source of his image, if copied.</p><p><br /></p><p>The age or origin of the scholarly "joke", itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>HELP ! ... CAN ANYONE HELP ?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Addendum ...</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhJpF_fPHJVnsUkfOUBbqzgvvSqAiSdZNkw0jyeQH756YYAKeOf4mxzLJ3UmUnj9pbv00Rf1j5youC2c9KB6X0bLPZwVJmIzY4_TVS1HElsDqB1KvZ4rP6oUNKr4eO9wY8WnYnGAmDqxbh_FKcNG57Zm6H4fw_aZnujmVh3e4u-cNqEDnvuOpsCD3uko/s3840/Screenshot%20(3842).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhJpF_fPHJVnsUkfOUBbqzgvvSqAiSdZNkw0jyeQH756YYAKeOf4mxzLJ3UmUnj9pbv00Rf1j5youC2c9KB6X0bLPZwVJmIzY4_TVS1HElsDqB1KvZ4rP6oUNKr4eO9wY8WnYnGAmDqxbh_FKcNG57Zm6H4fw_aZnujmVh3e4u-cNqEDnvuOpsCD3uko/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3842).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoxn36xhyphenhyphenoEoA8rNdTOn36-SkaI9c9RcXqjrG6lSjnBYQy_afg37AjNrH3H2EuWiK9HGNW0bJGb9oPenMDwgd5J3XsxsHNy8ILjG8-hqY9FM6SZXJZIuLSi_KstuNMR7ieRrPjQcHc6DL4qAISypjSco3i1g_cfxV3UqQqaHvyD9SYxUT14nnwTVnfE5c/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3856).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>... still have no information on D Kaufmann ( one eff ! )</p><p><br /></p><p>Germany has a state museum of graphic design in munich with a big website but it is hard to navigate if you don't understand how to label the fields in their database</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://emp.graphische-sammlung.mwn.de/eMuseumPlus">https://emp.graphische-sammlung.mwn.de/eMuseumPlus</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-87000983797297918642024-03-06T10:27:00.007+00:002024-03-08T03:29:34.956+00:00heraldry resource books freely available on the internet with archive.org ...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The figure is clearly copied from the print.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg14OvMo2CUIynYiYo2lOOKpF0ZVqMlvdlvXwiU5pULNtZRmpBngxtkVi8PUTd0NMJgaW3ZNUn4vyLfHJcWhEikyavoDLvGYXzCi-KXU0B3dbi9J1T7IdzHKcQWjjx4n-k3_OQ8RpZ0C9hRoiLaPNSClR6lx42wzALrVGcwDYstFzlloRwZYxv1d3y4000" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1348" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg14OvMo2CUIynYiYo2lOOKpF0ZVqMlvdlvXwiU5pULNtZRmpBngxtkVi8PUTd0NMJgaW3ZNUn4vyLfHJcWhEikyavoDLvGYXzCi-KXU0B3dbi9J1T7IdzHKcQWjjx4n-k3_OQ8RpZ0C9hRoiLaPNSClR6lx42wzALrVGcwDYstFzlloRwZYxv1d3y4000=w400-h361" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The transcription error ... SPEARE instead of SPHERE ... must have confused many people with weaker minds than Robert Recorde's.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-30988610482407039812024-03-03T05:44:00.001+00:002024-03-08T03:30:59.828+00:00The Curious Tale of Solomon and the Phoenix ... a lovely blog posting from The British Library ...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK6ga-bRqtbVybMjm73pSI-6F2Y4C_rfoWTYMfBg3bU9vzBPrz3YUTnJRcpQj0EG0qzKL5HMX9-QCy19z7aovPXe1lRLXCH8xWr4gom47bPFT2unbrYznuuE04I_4-HpnoNsK9qsvG8F5SInDG82W5QH8cyOJV1AS3jw0kFyAyZeIKwbrrZAEzvX7t4_4" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1581" data-original-width="961" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK6ga-bRqtbVybMjm73pSI-6F2Y4C_rfoWTYMfBg3bU9vzBPrz3YUTnJRcpQj0EG0qzKL5HMX9-QCy19z7aovPXe1lRLXCH8xWr4gom47bPFT2unbrYznuuE04I_4-HpnoNsK9qsvG8F5SInDG82W5QH8cyOJV1AS3jw0kFyAyZeIKwbrrZAEzvX7t4_4=w243-h400" width="243" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTHoWkSRJenlYdXJphsUIz8CTB5Tl8HmlRXr3_QCrZP1xJgujDR4j6cOgxksaI-qHzIZypG1GZGvdrcPijD4VVBiU0puE_2zg4v87yg44IAhRPjVVhRhhlOGcfnV_qk7ga3OUsOKZdLvYHN67nNG13l3HRcHQn53PyyWqRND2qTa4HeQSjHOUA79vYnZA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="1270" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTHoWkSRJenlYdXJphsUIz8CTB5Tl8HmlRXr3_QCrZP1xJgujDR4j6cOgxksaI-qHzIZypG1GZGvdrcPijD4VVBiU0puE_2zg4v87yg44IAhRPjVVhRhhlOGcfnV_qk7ga3OUsOKZdLvYHN67nNG13l3HRcHQn53PyyWqRND2qTa4HeQSjHOUA79vYnZA=w303-h400" width="303" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNp2Rb9Bd-85SoFuvw2lD1-bsMRhcB9z8Dh5FkV_caLmupicqzEVzVPStAKRIKJvVEpefB42jM92wAr6zYmvzYQndYxuel7Eo4bFVebEYm9GbcNXnrzi9yATbRSWMtYPVp2arVqIN2k5VHl5Snd1Ozw12qRImjMNhm5-sHaHA9J6guCBz2UduDbp3xBDM" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1127" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNp2Rb9Bd-85SoFuvw2lD1-bsMRhcB9z8Dh5FkV_caLmupicqzEVzVPStAKRIKJvVEpefB42jM92wAr6zYmvzYQndYxuel7Eo4bFVebEYm9GbcNXnrzi9yATbRSWMtYPVp2arVqIN2k5VHl5Snd1Ozw12qRImjMNhm5-sHaHA9J6guCBz2UduDbp3xBDM=w282-h400" width="282" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/01/the-curious-tale-of-solomon-and-the-phoenix.html">https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/01/the-curious-tale-of-solomon-and-the-phoenix.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-82697293796969608182024-03-01T06:38:00.003+00:002024-03-01T07:39:41.726+00:00rabbinical agonies when ancient myths and modern fiction collide ... was the phoenix on the ark ? YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP ...<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKZfUpuhoRodtld6ggUIVcE6mS4Kg8CWX_4rs_3MTWxGcIW8Z47zvSikCM_Y25kvvpr1HjJM3zuBgKVazZJQmn94eIBr6EbcgBVnFd_IFQXRLz5KZpMLPWsX4D8QutFA2FBDHHkJ9b9o39kzy40bJo7_3NAdkjLoiDh2qvDwUxfPP0IMUhYRMbeF7aIOU" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1104" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKZfUpuhoRodtld6ggUIVcE6mS4Kg8CWX_4rs_3MTWxGcIW8Z47zvSikCM_Y25kvvpr1HjJM3zuBgKVazZJQmn94eIBr6EbcgBVnFd_IFQXRLz5KZpMLPWsX4D8QutFA2FBDHHkJ9b9o39kzy40bJo7_3NAdkjLoiDh2qvDwUxfPP0IMUhYRMbeF7aIOU=w400-h286" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://daytonjewishobserver.org/2022/04/was-dumbledores-phoenix-fawkes-on-noahs-ark/">https://daytonjewishobserver.org/2022/04/was-dumbledores-phoenix-fawkes-on-noahs-ark/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-65796326879692406542024-02-27T07:23:00.007+00:002024-02-29T08:00:03.161+00:00ancient graves in the tarim basin ... the Tarim Basin mummies were not newcomers to the area but rather appear to be direct descendants of Ancient North Eurasians—a once widespread Pleistocene population that had nearly disappeared by the end of the last Ice Age<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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BUT THEN, LATER ... mercy me ! ... I had failed to realize i was looking at the cheap rip-off pirate edition ... the original publisher was Jacob Tonson in London ... his printers and engravers and artists did much finer work, as you will see ...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJU0rujc_j8MZ2ogbAN7-mVdMkG0ao4oawQov6mUq-gvCI2pV402gu72vEiEMWx5d2zQQkWwr53IGZnYpumjGDBonmJ0np09yA5U1m_dM5_QScW2PB8wNYwhes5KSrlAtv7VQe6cJtCNVd-L-kqMJKKWj9uwPQAsfo5XSzxl5iH-qjFr3H_IHl1Nfw_s/s3840/Screenshot%20(3625).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="3840" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJU0rujc_j8MZ2ogbAN7-mVdMkG0ao4oawQov6mUq-gvCI2pV402gu72vEiEMWx5d2zQQkWwr53IGZnYpumjGDBonmJ0np09yA5U1m_dM5_QScW2PB8wNYwhes5KSrlAtv7VQe6cJtCNVd-L-kqMJKKWj9uwPQAsfo5XSzxl5iH-qjFr3H_IHl1Nfw_s/w400-h225/Screenshot%20(3625).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>VOLUME ONE</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/ovidsmetamorphos01ovid/mode/2up?view=theater">https://archive.org/details/ovidsmetamorphos01ovid/mode/2up?view=theater</a></p><p><br /></p><p>this is the crude rip-off version printed in Dublin ...</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">But the clouds of barbarism were gradually dispelled; and the peaceful authority of Martin the Fifth and his successors restored the ornaments of the city as well as the order of the ecclesiastical state. The improvements of Rome, since the fifteenth century, have not been the spontaneous produce of freedom and industry. The first and most natural root of a great city is the labor and populousness of the adjacent country, which supplies the materials of subsistence, of manufactures, and of foreign trade. But the greater part of the Campagna of Rome is reduced to a dreary and desolate wilderness: the overgrown estates of the princes and the clergy are cultivated by the lazy hands of indigent and hopeless vassals; and the scanty harvests are confined or exported for the benefit of a monopoly. A second and more artificial cause of the growth of a metropolis is the residence of a monarch, the expense of a luxurious court, and the tributes of dependent provinces. Those provinces and tributes had been lost in the fall of the empire; and if some streams of the silver of Peru and the gold of Brazil have been attracted by the Vatican, the revenues of the cardinals, the fees of office, the oblations of pilgrims and clients, and the remnant of ecclesiastical taxes, afford a poor and precarious supply, which maintains, however, the idleness of the court and city. The population of Rome, far below the measure of the great capitals of Europe, does not exceed one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants; </span><a class="pginternal" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/895/pg895-images.html#linkMnote-74" id="linkMnoteref-74" style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">74</a><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"> and within the spacious enclosure of the walls, the largest portion of the seven hills is overspread with vineyards and ruins. The beauty and splendor of the modern city may be ascribed to the abuses of the government, to the influence of superstition. Each reign (the exceptions are rare) has been marked by the rapid elevation of a new family, enriched by the childish pontiff at the expense of the church and country. The palaces of these fortunate nephews are the most costly monuments of elegance and servitude: the perfect arts of architecture, sculpture, and painting, have been prostituted in their service; and their galleries and gardens are decorated with the most precious works of antiquity, which taste or vanity has prompted them to collect. The ecclesiastical revenues were more decently employed by the popes themselves in the pomp of the Catholic worship; but it is superfluous to enumerate their pious foundations of altars, chapels, and churches, since these lesser stars are eclipsed by the sun of the Vatican, by the dome of St. Peter, the most glorious structure that ever has been applied to the use of religion. The fame of Julius the Second, Leo the Tenth, and Sixtus the Fifth, is accompanied by the superior merit of Bramante and Fontana, of Raphael and Michael Angelo; and the same munificence which had been displayed in palaces and temples was directed with equal zeal to revive and emulate the labors of antiquity. Prostrate obelisks were raised from the ground, and erected in the most conspicuous places; of the eleven aqueducts of the Cæsars and consuls, three were restored; the artificial rivers were conducted over a long series of old, or of new arches, to discharge into marble basins a flood of salubrious and refreshing waters: and the spectator, impatient to ascend the steps of St. Peter's, is detained by a column of Egyptian granite, which rises between two lofty and perpetual fountains, to the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Rome, have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian and the student: </span><a class="pginternal" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/895/pg895-images.html#linkMnote-75" id="linkMnoteref-75" style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">75</a><span style="background-color: #faebd0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"> and the footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition, but of empire, are devoutly visited by a new race of pilgrims from the remote, and once savage countries of the North.</span> </span></p><p><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1em;">Of these pilgrims, and of every reader, the attention will be excited by a History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in the history of mankind. The various causes and progressive effects are connected with many of the events most interesting in human annals: the artful policy of the Cæsars, who long maintained the name and image of a free republic; the disorders of military despotism; the rise, establishment, and sects of Christianity; the foundation of Constantinople; the division of the monarchy; the invasion and settlements of the Barbarians of Germany and Scythia; the institutions of the civil law; the character and religion of Mahomet; the temporal sovereignty of the popes; the restoration and decay of the Western empire of Charlemagne; the crusades of the Latins in the East: the conquests of the Saracens and Turks; the ruin of the Greek empire; the state and revolutions of Rome in the middle age. The historian may applaud the importance and variety of his subject; but while he is conscious of his own imperfections, he must often accuse the deficiency of his materials. It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life, and which, however inadequate to my own wishes, I finally deliver to the curiosity and candor of the public.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-top: 0.25em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1em;">Lausanne, June 27 1787</p><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>tristanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13268216095376583052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7974631364621648458.post-14031657181765323882024-01-31T21:00:00.009+00:002024-02-29T11:22:40.055+00:00mimi parent<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_l__gO7UVo428qL7U5CIbaDdsTsyDrtXwxwZ5KVdbYw3csIXkmaW9QWlkB2-mSlKssBNQDUxGbg1T8iF7_kWSMaPToxzPe2Xj088DKDIY8txcMcCA2mKD_mPNtMcD4FHkXskRlmJvU5wVlA6IAV7ZFbUqlb6l7hRsmWm0KLZ6NPsEWnw-lLl0VBIr0g/s2048/mimi%20parent%20j%20habite%20au%20choc%201955.jpg" style="clear: left; 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color: #444444;">This magnificent gun was captured by the British after the siege of Alexandria during the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801, and has been here since it was transported to Horse Guards Parade in 1802.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The barrel was made by Murad, the Chief Gunner’s son, in 1524.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Better text here ...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theromantictraveller.blog/2012/07/05/turkish-gun-in-horse-guards-parade/">https://theromantictraveller.blog/2012/07/05/turkish-gun-in-horse-guards-parade/</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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