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16 men are seated at an oval table in Windsor arm-chairs smoking long-stemmed tobacco pipes, drinking from glasses and tankards, and engaging in conversation. On the far right a female servant brings in fresh tobacco pipes and a bottle and the walls include various prints and pictures  including landscapes, 'three witches addressing Macbeth', and satires
November 2, 2023
Asking Is it any good? this exhibition, on view through 28 June 2024, presents a selection of prints, drawings, and paintings from the library’s collection to explore...
Mezzotint half-length portrait of a man facing quarter turn to the right with his head turned to the left, looking over his shoulder. He wears a doublet with slashed sleeves and a lace-trimmed collar.
November 2, 2023
Now on the Scholar’s Progress Blog: “Horace Walpole and a Case of Antiquarian Eccentricity” by Stephen Clarke, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Liverpool,...
October 10, 2023
Barbara Mundy, Donald and Martha Robertson Chair in Latin American Art History, Tulane University, undertakes some armchair detective work in researching this “deeply...
October 9, 2023
Read the newest Scholars’ Progress Blog post “Deconstructing an Extra-Illustrated Book” by LWL Fellow Jane Wessel (‘14 and ‘23), Assistant Professor of English, US Naval...
July 19, 2023
The fabulous “Bawdy Bodies: Satires of Unruly Women,” curated by Hope Saska & Cynthia Roman, first presented in 2015 at the LWL & in 2016 at the University of...
July 3, 2023
Check out Neil Guthrie’s account of “Reading Horace Walpole” in the latest post on our Scholars’ Progress blog. We’re still in awe of his amazing feat of having...
June 23, 2023
A recording of the lecture, “Horace Walpole and Philanthropy in Eighteenth-Century England”, given by Dr. Andrew Rudd (University of Exeter, UK) at the Lewis Walpole Library...