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Home Page Site Map Full Index Artist Index Subject Index Metro Index Contact us Getting around DC Reference book: 'Washington Sculpture' by James M. Goode How do I find a particular sculpture? I just want to browse. What do you recommend? How are sculptures organized? Why does the site map have more than just Goode's 16 areas? Which D.C. sculptures have you included? How can I learn more about a particular sculpture? How do I get to & around Washington, D.C.? Why is "V" used instead of "U" and "I" instead of "J" on so many inscriptions? |
The following is from ""Early American Gravestones Introduction to the Farber Gravestone Collection" by Jessie Lie Farber Copyright 2003 American Antiquarian Society. You can read more about the Farber Gravestone Collection at DavidRumsey.com. "This lettering ... was the result of developments in the English alphabet. The letter J is a late variant of the Latin I, which gradually differentiated from I in function as well as form until, in the seventeenth century, the distinction between J as a consonant and I as a vowel was fully established. Similarly, the letters V and U are varieties of the same character—the U being simply a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably. U and V were not given separate alphabetical positions until about 1800. The letter W, or double U, sometimes seen as a double V is a survival of this use." |
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