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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...
watercolors of butterflies and beetle

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...
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

Recording of "Gillray, Royals and Censorship" Lecture Now Available

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...
screenshot of Youtube listing for video

Recording of 26th LWL Lecture Now Available

July 30, 2024
The video recording of the Twenty-Sixth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture: Music on the Dark Side of 1800: Listening to the Blind Virtuosa, Mademoiselle Paradis, is now available...
Gillray's print The Introduction

Lecture and Panel Discussion

May 1, 2024
The Limits of Free Speech: Gillray, The Royals and Censorship  Lecture by Tim Clayton, author of James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire, followed by a panel discussion with...