A portrait of the clockmaker Thomas Mudge by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1772)
Note: The title of this incendiary intervention was buried by Anthony Burgess in the title of his magisterial A Clockwork Orange (1962): in Malay, orang means “man” (as in orangutan, “man of the forest”). The book asks whether man is clockwork or has free will. Obviously, Thomas Mudge was a “clockwork orang” in another sense.
King George III in Coronation Robes by Allan Ramsay (c. 1765)
Frederick Gustavus Burnaby by James Tissot (1870)
Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:
• Avens Above – Harrap’s Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland, Simon Harrap (Bloomsbury 2013)
• Place of Glades – A Dictionary of British Place-Names, A.D. Mills (Oxford University Press 1991)
• De Minimis Curat Rex? – Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, Amir Alexander (Oneworld 2014)
• Seen and Not Heard – The Greatest Albums You’ll Never Hear, ed. Bruno MacDonald (Aurum Press 2014)
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