Comments on: Clennell’s London Melodies https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/08/15/clennells-london-melodies/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: peter morris https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/08/15/clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1220343 Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:36:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=168203#comment-1220343 God only knows what their underwear must have looked like!

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/08/15/clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1220320 Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:55:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=168203#comment-1220320 How sad that he was overwhelmed by the stress of his big commission to the point of madness.

I love how these woodcuts take me back to late Georgian England in my imagination like a pictorial time machine.

]]> By: Vince Price https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/08/15/clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1220233 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:54:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=168203#comment-1220233 I posted your blog on Facebook, Morpeth History Matters, given his birthplace.
Replies I received include:
He came from Ulgham, pronounced Uffham. 4 years after his death
a tablet by a local sculptor, R Davies, was erected
to him in St. Andrew’s Church, Newcastle.
A Catholic establishment still there.
I need to check this out. PLUS:
Someone knew his great neice who she went to
school with. Family lore suggested it was the
chemicals in the engraving material that contributed
to his illness? Full name Fenwicke-Clennel?

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/08/15/clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1220225 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:26:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=168203#comment-1220225 Would anyone eat food from so unhygienic a source ?
The mind boggles !
Gary

]]> By: Michelle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/08/15/clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1220189 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:29:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=168203#comment-1220189 Reminds me of The Cries of London music CD by the Theatre of Voices.

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2018/08/15/clennells-london-melodies/#comment-1220158 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:32:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=168203#comment-1220158 This is absolutely fascinating – thanks so much! I had heard of Clennell and his sad life, but never knowingly seen more than a few of his works. Am I right in seeing Bewickian influences in the depictions of the two donkeys? Much less so in the faces, which I first read as harsh, if not cruel caricatures, but then realised that part of the ‘problem’ was that unlike (I think) so many sets of ‘Cries’, these actually show the people shouting, with their faces therefore of necessity distorted?

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