Information > Exhibitions
The Lewis Walpole Library draws from its own collection of
prints, drawings and paintings to
mount several rotating exhibitions in Farmington each year.
These exhibitions may be viewed
during weekly tours. The Library has
also exhibited materials in New Haven
over the years. In 1999, to mark the 20th anniversary of W.S.
Lewis's gift of his collection
to Yale, the Library presented the exhibition "A
Treasure House in Farmington" at the Yale Center for British Art.
"Matrimony and Metaphor"
(Fall
2003)
A visual exploration
of marriage as a pervasive theme in
eighteenth-century graphic satire, on view through March
in the Lewis Walpole Library's Side
Hall. Cynthia Roman, LWL Curator of Prints, Drawings, and
Paintings, organized this provocative
exhibition of eighteenth-century prints from the Lewis Walpole
Library's collection.
"Preposterous Headdresses and Feathered Ladies"
(May
8 - October 29, 2003)
http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/exhibitions/hair/
"Treasure House in Farmington: The Lewis Walpole
Library"
(October 15, 1999 through January 9,
2000), Yale Center for British Art
http://www.library.yale.edu/Walpole/BAC/THOF_home.htm
Other Selected Past Exhibitions
"The
Train to the Eighteenth Century"
(Fall 2002), Farmington
"The Bewigged Bard: Horace Walpole's Shakespeare"
Exhibition
from the Lewis Walpole Library Collection
for the Bicentenary of Walpole's Death
(August through October
1997)
Sterling Memorial Library,
New Haven
"Among the Whores and Thieves": William
Hogarth and The Beggar's Opera
February 1 - April 6, 1997, Yale Center for British Art
Jointly presented by the Yale Center for British Art and the
Lewis Walpole Library
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