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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SDLIBR_180718_007.JPG: Leslie William Lee Jung Ho, 1939
2. SDLIBR_180718_022.JPG: The Codex Vindobonensis
3. SDLIBR_180718_034.JPG: William Hogarth (1697-1764) The English artist William Hogarth was a leading social critic of his day -- known for his satirical art that mocked the manners and morals of 18th century England. He is best known for his series of paintings that told a story through related scenes. The six-part Marriage a la Mode (1743) mocked upper-class marriage customs. The eight-part series, A Rake's Progress (1735), shows the rise and fall of a middle-class youth. Other works poked fun at the courts, elections, corrupt public officials, and the social costs of liquor. The sale of engravings from these works made Hogarth wealthy. But he was a controversial critic and disliked by many artists. The Hogarth works shown in this exhibit are part of a 99-piece Wangenheim collection of original engravings and etchings.
4. SDLIBR_180718_043.JPG: Donal Hord Westwind 1953
5. SDLIBR_180718_060.JPG: Frederick Yates Untitled, c 1904
6. SDLIBR_180718_070.JPG: Burmese Kammavaca (Confession for Buddhist Monks)
7. SDLIBR_180718_080.JPG: Kate Greenaway First Editions
8. SDLIBR_180718_090.JPG: Donal Hord Peon Game: Passers (Four Men), 1950
9. SDLIBR_180718_096.JPG: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
10. SDLIBR_180718_099.JPG: Omar Khayyam
11. SDLIBR_180718_103.JPG: Donal Hord Peon Game: Guesses (Four Men), 1950
12. SDLIBR_180718_111.JPG: Smallest Books Published in U.S.A.
13. SDLIBR_180718_114.JPG: Smallest Book in the World
14. SDLIBR_180718_126.JPG: The Smallest Book in the World This leather-bound ABC-picture book (4-color print), was produced in the traditional book city Leipzig. Measuring 2.4 x 2.9 mm, this is the world's smallest book in a published edition.
15. SDLIBR_180718_137.JPG: Rosetta Stone From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Rosetta Stone is a granodiorite stele, found in 1799, inscribed with three versions of a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic script and Demotic script, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. As the decree has only minor differences between the three versions, the Rosetta Stone proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, thereby opening a window into ancient Egyptian history. The stone, carved during the Hellenistic period, is believed to have originally been displayed within a temple, possibly at nearby Sais. It was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period, and was eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It was rediscovered there in July 1799 by a French soldier named Pierre-Fran�ois Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic language. Lithographic copies and plaster casts began circulating among European museums and scholars. British troops having meanwhile defeated the French, under the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801 the original stone came into British possession and was transported to London. It has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously since 1802 and is the most-visited object there. Study of the decree was already under way when the first full translation of the Greek text appeared in 1803. It was 20 years, however, before the transliteration of the Egyptian scripts was announced by Jean-Fran�ois Champollion in Paris in 1822; it took longer still before scholars were able to read Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently. Major advances in the decoding were recognition that the stone offered three versions of the same text (1799); that the demotic text used phonetic characters to spell foreign names (1802); that the hieroglyphic text did so as well, and had pervasive similarities to the demotic (Thomas Young, 1814); and that, in addition to being used for foreign names, phonetic characters were also used to spell native Egyptian words (Champollion, 1822–1824). Ever since its rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist rivalries, including its transfer from French to British possession during the Napoleonic Wars, a long-running dispute over the relative value of Young and Champollion's contributions to the decipherment and, since 2003, demands for the stone's return to Egypt. Two other fragmentary copies of the same decree were discovered later, and several similar Egyptian bilingual or trilingual inscriptions are now known, including two slightly earlier Ptolemaic decrees (the Decree of Canopus in 238 BC, and the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV, c. 218 BC). The Rosetta Stone is, therefore, no longer unique, but it was the essential key to modern understanding of Ancient Egyptian literature and civilisation. The term Rosetta Stone is now used in other contexts as the name for the essential clue to a new field of knowledge.
16. SDLIBR_180718_147.JPG: The Fifty-three Stages of the Tokaido by Hiroshige
17. SDLIBR_180718_150.JPG: Ando Hiroshige Shirasuka (Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido #33), c 1831-34
18. SDLIBR_180718_167.JPG: Egyptian pen and ink case
19. SDLIBR_180718_169.JPG: Leather scroll in Ge'ez language (Ethiopian script)
20. SDLIBR_180718_181.JPG: The Book of Esther in Hebrew characters, 18th century
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