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 tours. Please call 860-677-2140 to make an appointment.

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.

Current Exhibition

The exhibition space is closed for the installation of the

Upcoming Exhibition

"Portraits of Painters: Drawings by George Vertue from Horace Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England" opening in mid-July.

Recent Exhibitions

"Recent Acquisitions 2003-2007: Selected Books, Manuscripts, & Works on Paper " (November-April 2008)
http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/exhibitions/recent acqs/

"Antiquaries and Connoisseurs in Eighteenth-Century Satiric Prints "
(October 7, 2004 - May 11, 2005)

"Painted and Printed Color in Eighteenth-Century Satire"
(May 12 - October 6, 2004)

"Matrimony and Metaphor"
(October 29, 2003 - May 12, 2004)

"Preposterous Headdresses and Feathered Ladies"
(May 8 - October 29, 2003)
http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/exhibitions/hair/

Other Selected Past Exhibitions

"The Train to the Eighteenth Century"
(Fall 2002), Farmington

"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

"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