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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
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
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.
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...
watercolors of butterflies and beetle
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
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.
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...
On the left is shown a colored portrait of artist James Gillray, in the center is title "Gillray, Royals and Censorship," and right is view of auditorium with speakers and panellists
September 10, 2024
The videorecording of “The Limits of Free Speech: Gillray, the Royals and Censorship,” lecture by Tim Clayton with panel discussion Steve Bell and Martin Rowson is now...