Thomas Jenner (publisher)

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Illustration from The Military Discipline wherein is Martially Showne the Order for Drilling the Musket and Pike, published by Thomas Jenner, London 1642 The Military Discipline Plate 5.jpg
Illustration from The Military Discipline wherein is Martially Showne the Order for Drilling the Musket and Pike, published by Thomas Jenner, London 1642

Thomas Jenner (died 1673) was an English author, engraver, and publisher in London. He kept from 1624 a print-shop by the south entrance of the Royal Exchange; it was recommended by John Evelyn to Samuel Pepys. [1] [2]

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In business

The candle is lighted, we cannot blow out, joint portrait of 15 Protestant reformers c. 1640, published by Thomas Jenner The candle is lighted, we cannot blow out.jpg
The candle is lighted, we cannot blow out , joint portrait of 15 Protestant reformers c. 1640, published by Thomas Jenner

With Michael Sparke, Jenner is regarded as a Puritan publisher, of works motivated by their moral, religious and Protestant patriotic content. [3] An upmarket printseller with a broad base of stock, he was in competition with Peter Stent and Robert Walton. [4] As well as portraits, some being of royalist interest, he sold broadsides and political material. [5] Besides prints and books, he carried picture frames and stationery items. [6]

Engravers who worked for Jenner included Francis Delaram, William Marshall and Willem de Passe, whose wife Elizabeth is thought likely to have been a relation of Jenner. [7] [8] [9] Jan Barra made a set of engravings for the five senses. [10]

Jenner's authors included Joseph Moxon and Matthew Stevenson. [11] [12]

Works

Emblematic books

The first work attributed to Jenner himself is The Soules Solace; or Thirty and one Spirituall Emblems (edition 1626; 1631; 1639; 1651 under a new title, Divine Mysteries that cannot be seene, made plain by that which can be seene). It contains thirty copper-plate engravings (one repeated), each with descriptive letterpress. Some of those were influenced by Gabriel Rollenhagen. [13] Other emblematists thought to have influenced Jenner were Dutch, Jacob Cats and Florentius Schoonhoven. [14]

The final engraving, of a person in gay attire, with hat and plume, sitting and smoking at a table, is accompanied by a poem, once strangely attributed to George Wither, whose portrait the engraving was taken to be. [2] [13] The poem was in fact an allegorical work on earthly existence, [15] and its burden was "Thus thinke, then drinke Tobacco." Wither, an opponent of smoking, wrote a reply with the counter-refrain, "Thus thinke, drinke no Tobacco." [2]

The themes of other engravings were based on sermons preached in London, and exhibit anti-Catholic feeling. There is possibly allusion to the Fatal Vespers. [16] The preachers of the sermons are indicated by two initials only. [17] It has been argued that in particular the 27th engraving, "The new creation", with imagery based on an untuned musical instrument, could have been taken from preaching of John Donne. [18]

Jenner produced two more works in the same general vein. The Ages of Sin, or Sinne's Birth and Growth. With the Stepps and Degrees of Sin from thought to finall Impenitencie consists of a series of engraved plates in which, as in Francis Quarles's Emblems, each is accompanied by six metrical lines. There is also The Path of Life and the Way that leadeth down to the Chambers of Death or the Steps to Hell and the Steps to Heaven, in which all men may see their ways set forth in copper prints. London, 1656. [2] It is debated whether this last work should be classified as an emblem book. [19] Freeman disqualifies this book by Jenner as an emblem book, by a general four-point criterion. [20] Manning elucidates Jenner's intention by means of a biblical motto, Romans 1:20, associated with the emblematist Filippo Picinelli by his translator Augustin Erath, and paraphrased on the title page of Jenner's book as "by the outward and visible we may the easier see that which is inward and invisible". [21]

Maps

Attributed to Jenner is the Direction for the English Traveller, with maps by Jacob van Langeren, 1643. It was based on a 1635 book of similar title by Matthew Simmons, with enlarged maps. [22] The "Quartermaster's Map" used by both sides in the English Civil War was by Wenceslas Hollar and published by Jenner. It was closely based on the maps of Christopher Saxton. [23]

Other works

In 1648 Jenner published a series of tracts entitled A further Narrative of the Passages of these Times, containing an engraving of the populace pulling down Cheapside Cross, together with portraits of Oliver Cromwell, Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, and Sir William Wadd, Constable of the Tower, signed "Thomas Jenner fecit". [2] In 1650 he issued A Work for none but Angels and Men, that is to be able to look into and know ourselves. Or a Booke showing what the Soule is. According to Thomas Corser it is a prose translation of Sir John Davies's poem on the immortality of the soul, Nosce Teipsum of 1599. Either that year, or in 1651, Jenner issued London's Blame if not its Shame. [24] Other works are: [2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Horden, John. "Jenner, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/14751.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jenner, Thomas (fl.1631-1656)"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ↑ Alexandra Walsham (1999). Providence in Early Modern England. Oxford University Press. p. 251. ISBN   978-0-19-820655-2.
  4. ↑ Alexander V. Globe (1 November 2011). Peter Stent, London Printseller. UBC Press. p. 7. ISBN   978-0-7748-4141-2.
  5. ↑ Eric Chamberlain (1 November 1993). Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Boydell & Brewer. p. xiii. ISBN   978-0-85991-332-4.
  6. ↑ My Head Is A Map. Kunstpedia Foundation. p. 76. ISBN   978-90-816542-1-0.
  7. ↑ Griffiths, Antony. "Delaram, Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7445.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ↑ Griffiths, Antony. "Marshall, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/18154.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  9. ↑ Veldman, Ilja M. "Passe, Simon de". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/21504.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ↑ "British Museum - The Five Senses / Gustus" . Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Bryden, D. J. "Moxon, Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19466.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ↑ William Carew Hazlitt (1867). Hand-book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Grait Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration. By W. Carew Hazlitt. John Russell Smith. p.  578.
  13. 1 2 Mario Praz (2001). Studies in Seventeenth-century Imagery. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. p. 383. ISBN   978-88-87114-87-4.
  14. ↑ Thomas Jenner; Sidney Gottlieb (1 July 1983). The Emblem Books of Thomas Jenner: photoreproductions. Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints. p. xiii. ISBN   978-0-8201-1389-0.
  15. ↑ Susanne Rupp; Tobias Döring (2005). Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Rodopi. p. 195. ISBN   978-90-420-1805-1.
  16. ↑ Bart Westerweel (1997). Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Field of the Emblem. Brill. p. 15. ISBN   978-90-04-10868-4.
  17. ↑ Rosemary Freeman (1948). English Emblem Books. Octagon Books. p. 87.
  18. ↑ Ayodeji Malcolm Guite, The Art of Memory and the Art of Salvation: A Study with Reference to the Works of Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, and T. S. Eliot at p. 221
  19. ↑ Bart Westerweel (1997). Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Field of the Emblem. Brill. p. 5. ISBN   978-90-04-10868-4.
  20. ↑ Rosemary Freeman (1948). English Emblem Books. Octagon Books. p. 239.
  21. ↑ John Manning (4 April 2004). The Emblem. Reaktion Books. p. 125. ISBN   978-1-86189-198-3.
  22. ↑ Cynthia Sundberg Wall (1 October 2014). The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. University of Chicago Press. p. 245 note 15. ISBN   978-0-226-22502-9.
  23. ↑ George Fordham, A Note on the "Quartermaster's Map," 1644, The Geographical Journal Vol. 70, No. 1 (Jul., 1927), pp. 50–52. Published by: geographicalj DOI: 10.2307/1781884. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1781884
  24. ↑ London's Blame if not its Shame. Manifested by the great neglect of the Fishery which affordeth to our Neighbor Nations yeerly the Revenue of many Millions which they take up at our Doors. … Dedicated by Thos. Jenner to the Corporation of the Poor in the City of London, being a member thereof. Printed for T. J., 1651.
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