On Oct. 5, Dr. Abigail Swingen will join Yale Library as the W. S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library. A scholar of British history, Swingen...
14-16 October 2026
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
Organized by the Lewis Walpole Library in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Library, and...
The Lewis Walpole Library has a new telephone number +1 203-737-6644 for the general line, replacing the long-standing old number.
Each member of staff also has a new...
Lewis Walpole Library-Farmington Libraries
Exhibition Talk
Thursday, June 11
7 to 8 pm
Street Life: The “Cries” in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877
By Gillian Forrester,...
Gillian Forrester, Independent art historian and curator of the current exhibition on “Cries” will lead a collection-based seminar for graduate students. Following a curator-...
The videorecording of the 28th Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, “Art and Truth: William Hogarth and the English Enlightenment” is now available online on the Yale Library...
Prof. Frédéric Ogée
11 February 2026, 10 am to 12:30 pm, Yale Center for British Art
The Lewis Walpole Library has organized and will present a seminar on William Hogarth at...
