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Graduate Student Seminar

Street Life: The “Cries” in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877

Tuesday and Wednesday, 9-10 June 2026

Lewis Walpole Library, June 9, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Beinecke Library, June 10 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Yale Center for British Art, June 10, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

The Lewis Walpole Library will host a collection-based seminar in connection with the current exhibition in Farmington curated by Gillian Forrester, Independent art historian, curator, and writer.

Led by Gillian Forrester, the seminar will explore the long-established traditions in visual culture of depicting street vendors “crying” or broadcasting their wares. The focus is primarily on British print culture, with the majority of the works published in and featuring London, but the exhibition also includes works in other media and will be transnational in scope. We plan to include works depicting vendors in Calcutta (present day Kolkata), the British Caribbean, Lima, New York, and Paris, and to consider how the “Cries” genre was developed into an ethnographic discourse as Britain expanded its imperial reach.

Following a curator-led tour of the exhibition, the group will continue conversation with additional materials and visits to special collection study rooms at the Lewis Walpole Library, the Beinecke Library and the Yale Center for British Art.

For further information please email walpole@yale.edu

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