Winchester College

The Fellows Librarian and Archivist

THE FELLOWS’ LIBRARIAN AND ARCHIVIST went to Uplands County Primary School, Fareham on Thursday 19 March. They took four of the ten elephant folio volumes of Denon’s Egypt, which were commissioned by Napoleon as a record of the French campaign in the 1790s. There were three groups, each of 28-30 children, who had been studying Egypt. The groups were shown a selection of the copperplates in the volumes, concentrating on the Pyramids, the Rosetta Stone, and the process of mummification. To reinforce this last element, the visitors also took along a canopic jar for an ibis, which had been given to the Fellows’ Library in 1764; sadly, the ibis, which was present when the urn was given to the Library, has since disappeared.