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.
From Hogarth's A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1732/33.
Etching, 3rd state. Courtesy of Princeton.
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:
From Hogarth's A Midnight Modern Conversation, 1732/33.
Etching, 3rd state. Courtesy of Princeton. 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:
![Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–253) Homilia in Genesim, Homiliae in Exodum, in Latin, translation by Rufinus, decorated manuscript on parchment [Austria, Lambach Abbey? c. 1150–1175]. Estimate: $150,000-$200,000.](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card/public/media-images/2026-06/origen.jpeg?itok=0V_4_Lt2)
