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Description
Lithograph print titled OUR JOINT MAGISTRATE
Work Record ID
0184936
Description
Industrial landscape, buildings and chimneys.
Work Record ID
0019702
Material
Oil Paint
Work Record ID
0070138
Holding Institution
University of Edinburgh
Description
Car atlas from 1909 by Lord Montagu detailing all major roads within the UK with detailed routes between indivdual towns and cities. The book is complete with listing of facilities in each of the places referenced, details of ferries available including prices, a compass bound into the spine, and a fold-out road map.
Work Record ID
0158811
Description
This is a viewers' guide to a panorama of Constantinople and surrounding country exhibited in Leicester Square, London, in 1801. The item is captioned "The Lower Circle of Observation exhibits a View of Constantinople and the Surrounding Country".
Work Record ID
0355585
Subject Person
Subject Event
Description
Black and white print of a girl's head
Work Record ID
0152438
Related Work Title
Heart of Mid-Lothian, The
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'A "summat" to eat and drink' = '"Quelque chose" à manger et à boire'
Date
1836
Material
Print
Description
Black poster with white frame and white letters.
Work Record ID
0070936
Production Place
[Paris, Europe, France, Western Europe]
Work Record ID
0037251
Production Place
[Paris, Europe, France, Western Europe]
Work Record ID
0037251
Production Place
[Paris, Europe, France, Western Europe]
Work Record ID
0037251
Production Place
[Paris, Europe, France, Western Europe]
Work Record ID
0037251
Related Work Title
Pirate, The
Creator Name
Melville, Henry
Title
'Close in, lads, he is not half so mad now.' = 'Courons dessus, camarades, il n'est pas maintenant si furieux.'
Date
1837
Material
aquatint/Etching
Description
The portfolio Concinnitas is the result of a collaboration between Dan Rockmore (Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College); ten renowned mathematicians and physicists; the publisher Robert Feldman (who earlier produced seminal Conceptual art print portfolios); and the New York printing house Harlan & Weaver. It takes its title from a term used by the Renaissance artist and architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) to indicate the proportions of beauty. Each print represents a participant’s answer to Rockmore’s prompt to represent the "most beautiful mathematical expression" they had encountered in their work or study. Rendered so as to mimic the aesthetics of a handwritten equation, such as those immortalized in photographs of Albert Einstein’s blackboard, Concinnitas also echoes Conceptual artists’ engagement with language and systems. While to the layperson the mathematical content may remain enigmatic or require further research, the prints persist on their own as powerful visual signs communicating the gesture and intentions of their creators. Artist's statement: The discovery of the neutron in 1932 introduced the idea of nuclei composed of neutrons and protons. When we look deeper we see that each neutron or proton is composed of three quarks, roughly speaking one of each "color." It is the color force that binds quarks together to form the neutrons and protons. The color variable takes three different values, nicknamed "red," "green," and "blue." "Colored" objects are confined. They cannot escape to be detected singly. The theory is perfectly symmetrical under the transformation group SU3(color) that transforms the three colors into one another. The expression presented here embodies the Lagrangian of quantum chromodynamics ("QCD"), the mathematical representation encoding the dynamics of the strong interaction, one of the fundamental physical forces along with gravitation and the weak, and electromagnetic forces. It is "beautiful" because it contains some truth. There is also a beauty in its succinctness, but that terseness sweeps a bit under the rug. We have here three terms, where the first two Lgl,Lq, encode the effects (fields) due to gluons and quarks respectively, and Laddl, contains the "additional" terms and includes, among other things, the fields that ultimately predicted the recently discovered Higgs boson. I recall that in arriving, along with some colleagues, at this formulation, it came not as a burst of intuition, but rather as an accretion of steady work, and this expression summarizes not just a truth about the world, but a lot of hard work over a long period of time, each term "plucked" from a body of discoveries over a number of years. As time went by, I and other people had insights about what would be included in this description. I might add that we were thinking about the strong interaction in a way that was a bit different from many in the community. At any stage we might have stopped, leaving more for the "additional" term, but this formulation felt good. It was self-contained and satisfied the symmetry conditions imposed by the group SU3. This kept us from venturing into territory that was at that time not yet fully explored. So, even though it is true, it is also in a sense not final, there are always more details to add -- there are various scalar fields, not just the Higgs, that we know are there, but we don’t yet know what to do with them -- so there is still more to be discovered and there is a beauty in that too.
Work Record ID
0152468
Related Work Title
Ivanhoe
Creator Name
Westall, Richard
Title
'Do you dispute with me Slave?'
Date
1820-1829
Related Work Title
Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'Eh, sirs!' = 'Oh messieurs!'
Date
1836
Related Work Title
Betrothed, The
Creator Name
Elmore, Alfred
Title
'Eveline fetched a fuller sigh, and opened her eyes; but presently shut them again, and letting her head drop on Rose's bosom, fell into a strong shuddering fit.'
Date
1891
Related Work Title
Lay of the Last Minstrel, The
Creator Name
Wright, John Massey
Title
'Full fast the urchin ran and laughed. But faster still a cloth-yard shaft whistled from startled Tinlinn's yew.' Canto IV Stanza XII
Date
1805-1899
Related Work Title
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'Gape, sinner, and swallow!' = 'Ouvre la bouche, pecheur, et avale!'
Date
1836
Related Work Title
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer
Creator Name
Leslie, Charles Robert
Title
'He grinned like an ogre, swung his arms like the sails of a wind-mill, shouted "Prodigious", till the roof rung to his raptures.'
Date
1828
Related Work Title
Betrothed, The
Creator Name
Topham, Francis William
Title
'He is gone for ever.' = 'Il est parti pour toujours.'
Date
1838
Related Work Title
Black Dwarf, The
Creator Name
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
Title
'It's Auld Ailie hersell!' = 'C'est la vieille Ailie elle-même!'
Date
1836
Related Work Title
Heart of Mid-Lothian, The
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'Jeanie - I say, Jeanie, woman' = 'Jeannette, écoute, Jeannette, ma fille'
Date
1836
Related Work Title
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer
Creator Name
Linton, James Dromgole
Title
'Julia Mannering' from Sir Walter Scott's 'Guy Mannering'
Date
1894
Related Work Title
Monastery, The
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'Knowest thou then this token?' = 'Connais-tu donc ce signe?'
Date
1837
Related Work Title
Waverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'Lady Waverley! ten thousand a year!' = 'Lady Waverley! Dix mille livres de revenu!'
Date
1836
Related Work Title
Antiquary, The
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'My good friends, "favete linguis".' = 'Mes bons amis, "favete linguis".'
Date
1836
Related Work Title
Black Dwarf, The
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'Not again - not again!' = 'Non - non, pas deux fois!'
Date
1836
Related Work Title
Ivanhoe
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'One foot nearer & I plunge myself from the precipice' = 'Un pied plus près et je me plonge dans le précipice'
Date
1837
Material
Print
Description
Black poster with white frame and white letters.
Work Record ID
0070935
Description
Black poster with white letters.
Work Record ID
0070940
Related Work Title
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer
Creator Name
Cruikshank, George
Title
'Pro-di-gi-ous!' = 'Pro-di-gi-eux!'
Date
1836
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