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28th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture Announced

November 20, 2025

28th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture Thursday, February 12, 2026 5:30 pm Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Lecture Hall, Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT...

detail of painting "the Golden Asses" showing Thomas Patch astride a figure of a golden ass on a pedestal, two men looking up at him. all figures in caricature

Exhibition of the works of Thomas Patch on view through December 15

October 14, 2025

Don’t miss “Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy,” on view at the LWL through December 15. This...

poster advertising October 16 evening talk by Hugh Belsey for Fall exhibition at the Lewis Walpole Library

Joint Lewis Walpole Library-Farmington Libraries Exhibition Talk October 16

July 28, 2025

Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy October 16, 7-8 pm at the Lewis Walpole Library 154 Main Street...

A well-dressed crowd stand outside, enter, or struggle to enter a wide doorway, Broadsides announcing the exhibition are posted on the exterior wall above which in large letters is No 5, flanking an elaborate fan-light. They mount steps from the street, throng the vestibule, and are seen through an open window (right) ascending a staircase. A man in the vestibule shouts.

Exhibition:"'Seen With Great Delight': Spectacle in Georgian London" on view through August 22

June 3, 2025

Curated by Alison Fitzgerald, Maynooth University, the exhibition primarily focuses on images drawn from the LWL’s extensive collections that announce, depict and...

Jessica Riskin to Deliver the 27th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture--April 30, 5:30 pm

April 8, 2025

Jessica Riskin will deliver the 27th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture on Professor of Insects and Worms: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and his Life-Made World April 30, 5:30 pm, 53 Wall...

Very tall man stands among a group of people, most of whom rise to his midriff in height

“Seen With Great Delight”: Spectacle in Georgian London--LWL/Farmington Libraries talk

February 19, 2025

Joint Lewis Walpole Library - Farmington Libraries Talk Thursday, March 20, 2025 7 pm The Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032 “Seen With Great...

Full-length portrait of a woman, likely to be Mary Anne Clarke, wearing a white neoclassical dress and standing on a balcony with a curtain drapped from the left corner.

Paradox of Pearls Exhibit & Associated Programs

September 27, 2024

The new exhibition “The Paradox of Pearls: Accessorizing Identities in the Eighteenth Century,” Curated by Laura Engel, Professor, Duquesne University, is on view now through...