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The Mysterious Mother: A Staged Reading

April 6, 2018
The Mysterious Mother: A Staged Reading May 2, 5:30 PM Yale Center for British Art The Lewis Walpole Library and the Yale Center for British Art are collaborating to present...
One of Lady Diana Beauclerk's drawings for The Mysterious Mother

Horace Walpole’s "The Mysterious Mother": A Mini-conference

April 6, 2018
Thursday, May 3, 2018 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM The Yale Center for British Art 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510   Session 1: Reading The Mysterious Mother 10 AM to 12 PM...
Image for the 23rd Lewis Walpole Library Lecture "Pride, Prejudice, & Portraits: The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen" shows the title to the left of a detail from the portrait of a young woman in a white dress and short auburn hair (possibly Jane Austen)

Twenty-third Lewis Walpole Library Lecture

March 1, 2018
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 5:30 pm Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510 Claudia L. Johnson, Murray Professor of English Literature...
Photo of Elliot Briery, a young man with dark hair and glasses, seated at the table in the LWL Reading Room, looking at a limp vellum-bound manuscript volume of Letters from the Levant Company

January issue of the LWL newsletter

January 22, 2018
Stay up-to-date with the latest LWL happenings by checking out the newest edition of the LWL Newsletter. 
Publicity image for the "Global Encounters and the Arcives" conference with conference title in white text on a teal background with a detail of the western hemisphere from an 18th century map

Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century

January 18, 2018
As part of the Lewis Walpole Library’s celebration of Horace Walpole’s tercentenary and the 100th anniversary of W.S. Lewis’s Yale class of 1918, the library is working with...
Still life a l'hollandois, an uncolored etching showing six figures in an interior. Each figure has a body shaped like a ceramic vessel. There is text below the image

Baring a Collective British Bottom at the Dutch and their Material Culture

January 12, 2018
The anonymous 1779 etching, Still Life: a’ l’Hollandois, offers a complex visual critique of Dutch character and culture.  Unlike more typical visual caricatures of the Dutch...
Image is detail of the colored print "French flight, or, The grand monarque and the rights of kings supported in a sublime and beautiful manner" by William Dent. A political satire with Burke depicted as Mercury carrying on his shoulders Marie Antoinette who in turn carries Louis XVI.

2018-2019 Fellowship applications now being accepted

November 6, 2017
The application period for 2018-2019 has now closed. Awards will be announced in March. The Lewis Walpole Library invites applications to its 2018–2019 fellowship program....