En écoutant Fidelio/ Oh  comme c’est beau… ( Klemperer …)

De fil en aiguille comme on dit et cherchant l’origine de cette gravure  » Amusing philisophy » que j’avais dans ma documentation, je cherche dans ma chère NYPL et tape: Amusing philosophy  ce qui ne donne rien.  A philosophy , une vignette m’attire:

gravure de Mutlow 1806 Depicting acoustics

mur Frigo 2012,découpage 

Dans Location, est écrit ceci: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle

SHELLEY AND HIS CIRCLE!!!

Miam miam , me dis-je. Et en effet miam -good. C’est une exposition en ligne de  cette collection:

The Collection was the creation of the financier Carl H. Pforzheimer, Sr. (1879-1957), who took a special interest in the lives and works of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and his contemporaries, including his second wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and such friends and fellow writers as Lord Byron, Claire Clairmont, Teresa Guiccioli, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Love Peacock, Horace Smith, and Edward John Trelawny.

The Bodleian Library and The New York Public Library — include close to 90 percent of all known surviving Shelley manuscripts, embodying the history of literary Romanticism in Great Britain and the United States. SHELLEY’S GHOST offers a lens through which to see that history.

Notes

J. Noël Paton/

Lady Hester Stanhope/( « reine de Tadmor, sorcière, prophétesse, patriarche, chef arabe, morte en 1839 sous le toit délabré de son palais ruineux, à Djîhoun, dans le Liban »)/ Alphonse de Lamartine, « Visite à lady Esther Stanhope », in Voyage en Orient, 1835.

James Akin (1773–1846).

Macaronis

The macaronis were an ephemeral phenomenon, as well as an extension of the fops and beaus of the earlier part of the century. They were called, among other epithets, ‘noxious vermin,’ ‘that doubtful gender,’ and ‘amphibious creatures,’ and were compared variously to monsters, devils, reptiles, women, monkeys, asses, and butterflies.
“Their concern for elaborate clothing, including tight trousers, large wigs, short coats, and small hats made them the ridicule of their generation, who focused on their gender ambiguity and the dangers of their conformity to foreign and effeminate fashion. A contemporary pamphlet, The Vauxhall Affray, sums up this view: ‘But Macaronies are a sex Which do philosophers perplex; Tho’ all the priests of Venus’s rites Agree they are Hermaphrodites. This gender ambiguity is the aspect of the representational life…’ (West, The Darly Macaroni Prints and the Politics of “Private Man.” Eighteenth-Century Life 25.2 [2001] pp.170-182).

“…the marks that had been codified into the macaroni type [were]: fine sprigged fabric, tight clothes, oversized sword, tasseled walking stick, delicate shoes, and, most recognizably, an enormous wig. This wig, combining a tall front with a fat queue or “club” of hair behind, was the feature that epitomized the macaroni’s extravagant artifice during London’s macaroni craze of the early 1770s. Named for the pasta dish that rich young Grand Tourists brought back from their sojourns in Rome, the macaroni was known in the 1760s as an elite figure marked by the cultivation of European travel. But as The Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine explained in its inaugural issue in 1772, ‘the word Macaroni then changed its meaning to that of a person who exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion; and is now justly used as a term of reproach to all ranks of people, indifferently, who fall into this absurdity.’ Macaroni fashion was contagious, and as it spread beyond its original cadre into the rising…” (Rauser, Hair, Authenticity, and the Self-Made Macaroni.Eighteenth-Century Studies 38.1 [2004] pp. 101-117)

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James Akin (1773-1846). The Pedlar and his Pack or the Desperate Effort, an Over Balance. Philadelphia, 1828. Etching and aquatint with hand coloring.