Sin & The City Opens Friday
An exhibit called Sin & the City: William Hogarth's London will open at Princeton University's Firestone Library on Friday. Celebrating the work of this eighteenth-century painter and printmaker, the exhibition will prompt a "midnight modern conversation," a gallery tour, and a musical evening later in the fall, and the exhibit will remain up through January.
One really neat aspect of the exhibit's preparation so far is the creation of a website that mapped the eighteenth-century London sites depicted in Hogarth's prints. Not only is it a remarkable online component to the exhibit, but an example of how an application like Google Maps can inform book history. Brilliant! Here's a snapshot:
![Screen shot 2011-08-23 at 9.29.28 PM.png](https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/assets_c/2011/08/Screen%20shot%202011-08-23%20at%209.29.28%20PM-thumb-300x231-2914.png)
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One really neat aspect of the exhibit's preparation so far is the creation of a website that mapped the eighteenth-century London sites depicted in Hogarth's prints. Not only is it a remarkable online component to the exhibit, but an example of how an application like Google Maps can inform book history. Brilliant! Here's a snapshot:
![Screen shot 2011-08-23 at 9.29.28 PM.png](https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine_books_blog/assets_c/2011/08/Screen%20shot%202011-08-23%20at%209.29.28%20PM-thumb-300x231-2914.png)
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