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April 2008:
Summer
Fellowships in British 18th-Century Studies for Yale Graduate
Students Offered. The Lewis Walpole Library offers summer
fellowships to students enrolled in doctoral programs at
Yale University who wish to pursue dissertation research
in the Lewis Walpole collections. The application deadline
for fellowships for the summer of 2008 has been extended to May. Awards
will be announced shortly thereafter. For
more details click here.
Master Class for Yale Graduate Students,
May 12 - 16, 2008. The Lewis
Walpole Library is once again offering a week-long master class
in Farmington, taught by Brian Maidment and open to Yale graduate
students. This year Curator
Cynthia Roman will join Professor Maidment in teaching the class "Caricature and the Comic Image 1800-1850." The number of participants is limited. For
more details click here.
Fifteenth
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture. On
Friday, April 18, Leo Damrosch, the Ernest Bernbaum Professor
of Literature at Harvard, presented the Fifteenth Lewis
Walpole Library Lecture, "Feeling Free in the Enlightenment:
Diderot versus Rousseau, or, Philosophy versus Lived Experience," in the Yale Center for British Art Lecture
Hall, New Haven. For
more details click here.
January 2008:
Print Metadata Seminar: On January 25, 2008, The Library hosted a seminar held as part of the Library's involvement in the Collections Collaborative project to reach agreement upon common or compatible practices for descriptive and imaging metadata and to develop a metadata registry and a metadata application profile for Yale University. For more details click here.
December
2007:
Fellowship
and Travel Grant Awards Invited. Applications
are invited for the 2008-2009 year (July through June).
The Library offers visiting fellowships, normally for four
weeks, as well as travel grants of lesser duration, to scholars
engaged in post-doctoral or equivalent research and to doctoral
candidates at the dissertation stage. In a typical year
the Library awards up to a dozen fellowships and travel
grants. The visiting fellowships, which include the cost
of travel to and from Farmington, provide a stipend of $1,800
per month in addition to accommodation in an eighteenth-century
house on site. The travel grants, which vary in duration
and amount, also include accommodation. The application
deadline is January 18, 2008. For
more details click here.
Recent Acquisitions Exhibition. Recent
Acquisitions 2003-2007: Selected Books, Manuscripts, & Works
on Paper is now on view in the Library's new exhibition
space. For
more details click here.
September 2007
Library Reopens :
The Lewis Walpole
Library officially reopened on September 27. Library staff
and guests celebrated the completion of the renovation and
construction project, as well as the 290th anniversary of
Horace Walpole's birth, at a gala lawn party in Farmington.
The Library's collection
of books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings is once again
accessible and may be consulted by appointment in the Library's
splendid new Reading Room.
Tours of
the Library and its collections have resumed. For an appointment,
please contact Susan Walker, Head of Public Services.
The Library underwent
a major renovation and addition that together included a
spacious reading room, state-of-the-art collection storage,
and new staff and conservation workspace. Construction began
in spring 2006, and the first phase, which included the
construction of the addition, was completed by early summer
2007. The renovation of remaining Library spaces was completed
by the reopening. These now include a new exhibition space
and classroom, enabling the Library to expand its programmatic
offerings.
For details about
the renovation project, click here.
For further information,
contact the Librarian.
The Librarian, The
Lewis Walpole Library, P.O. Box 1408, Farmington, CT 06034
USA
1 860 677-2140
walpole@yale.edu
April
2007:
Fellowship
and Travel Grant Awards Announced. The Library is delighted
to announce next year's Lewis Walpole Library Fellows. They
will take up their fellowships or grants between July 2007
and June 2008. For
more details click here.
Fourteenth
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture. On Friday, April
27, in the Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall, New
Haven, Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science, Berlin, and the University of Chicago, presented
the Fourteenth Lewis Walpole Library Lecture entitled "Observation
in the Enlightenment." For
more details click here.
Summer
Fellowships in British 18th-Century Studies for Yale Graduate
Students Offered. The Lewis Walpole Library offers summer
fellowships to students enrolled in doctoral programs at
Yale University who wish to pursue dissertation research
in the Lewis Walpole collections. The application deadline
for fellowships for the summer of 2007 is April 16. Awards
will be announced shortly. For
more details click here.
The Library once again participated
in the annual exhibition of items drawn from Special Collections
throughout Yale. This year's installation, entitled "The
History of Globalization: Artifacts and Documentation from
Yale's Collections," was held as part of the season of events
developed around the theme of "The Global Faces of the Yale
Library."
November
2006:
Library
Closed for Building Renovations. Because of the
ongoing renovations, the Lewis Walpole Library will be closed
until early summer 2007. During this time the Library will
be able to offer only very limited public services. For
more details click here.
Fellowship
Program Resumes. Applications are invited for the 2007-2008
year (July through June). The Library offers visiting fellowships,
normally for four weeks, as well as travel grants of lesser
duration, to scholars engaged in post-doctoral or equivalent
research and to doctoral candidates at the dissertation
stage. In a typical year the Library awards up to a dozen
fellowships and travel grants. The visiting fellowships,
which include the cost of travel to and from Farmington,
provide a stipend of $1,800 per month in addition to accommodation
in an eighteenth-century house on site. The travel grants,
which vary in duration and amount, also include accommodation.
The application deadline is January 12, 2007.
April 2006:
Photoduplication
services resumed.
The Library and Jonathan Edwards
College sponsored the Opera
Theatre of Yale College's production
of Elisir d'Amore, by Gaetano Donizetti, conducted
by Nick Chong and directed by Ethan Heard.
Robert
Darnton, Shelby Cullom Davis '30 Professor of European History,
Princeton University, presented the Thirteenth
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture , "Slander:
The Art and Politics of Slinging Mud, Paris and London,
1770-1795" on Friday, April 7, at 5:30 p.m. in the Yale
Center for British Art Lecture Hall, 1080 Chapel Street‚
New Haven.
December 2005:
Library
Awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Grant. The
Library was awarded a grant from the National Endowment
for the Humanities for a Preservation Assessment of the
Prints and Drawings Collections. The grant will enable the
Library to carry out a conservation assessment of the eighteenth-century
British prints
and drawings in the collection
and to develop a comprehensive plan for their conservation
treatment.
Photoduplication
services suspended temporarily. As
the Library prepared to move its collections to storage,
photoduplication services were suspended from December 1,
2005, through March 31, 2006. They resumed in April 2006.
October 2005:
The Library participated
in the Special
Collections Fair held October
6 at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New
Haven. Assistant Librarian and Head of Public Services Susan
Walker and Curator Cynthia Roman presented items related
to the Duchess of Kingston's 1776 Bigamy Trial.
The
items on display represented some of the many types of materials
in the collection that support inquiry into a particular
topic. These included prints, published texts, extra-illustrated
books, and a manuscript journal. The trial was the subject
of the Library's latest volume of Miscellaneous Antiquities,
"The Production of a Female Pen": Anna Larpent's Account
of the Duchess of Kingston's Bigamy Trial of 1776, published
last year.
Prior to its closing,
the Library offered tours to members of the Yale University
Library staff through LiSA, the Library Staff Association,
in celebration of Yale University Library's 75th anniversary.
September
2005:
For the English Department's
first 18th-/19th-C.
Colloquium of the academic year,
the Library co-sponsored a talk by Helen Deutsch, Associate
Professor at UCLA, entitled "'Hodge Shall Not Be Shot':
Boswell, Johnson Pale Fire, and the Romance of Authorship."
The talk was presented September 16 in New Haven.
May 2005:
For
the Commencement Concert,sponsored
by the Lewis Walpole Library and Saybrook College, the
Saybrook College
Orchestra, Perry So, Music Director,
performed Selections from Candide by Leonard Bernstein,
featuring Charlotte Dobbs, Soprano, and Amanda Ingram,
Soprano, and Symphony No. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"
by Tchaikovsky. May 21, Battell Chapel.
April
2005:
Grants
awarded for The Lewis Walpole Library/Strawberry Hill projects
The Library received
two grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation totaling
$37,500. One grant supports curatorial fellow Hope Saska
who is developing an electronic database focused on the
objects collected by Walpole for Strawberry Hill. The second
grant, awarded to the Lewis Walpole Library and the Yale
Center for British Art, funded an organizational meeting
to plan a major exhibition dedicated to Strawberry Hill.
The exhibition will be organized by those two Yale entities
in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
For further details see the article in the Yale
Bulletin & Calendar, April 1,
2005|Volume 33, Number 24, or
contact the Library at
walpole@yale.edu.
Joyce Appleby, Professor
Emerita of History, UCLA, presented the Twelfth
Lewis Walpole Library Lecture, "Thomas Paine and the
Intellectual Underpinnings of American Democracy" on Friday,
April 22, at 5:30 p.m. in the Yale Center for British Art
Lecture Hall, 1080 Chapel Street‚ New Haven.
The Library sponsored
the Opera Theatre
of Yale College's performance
of W.A. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
Parliaments,
Peoples and Power 1603-1800, an International Conference
at Yale, was held April 7-9 in New Haven and Farmington.
December
2004:
Renovation
Planned for Academic Year 2005-2006. Fellowships Postponed.
In light of the scheduled Library renovation project
in the 2005-2006 academic year, the Lewis Walpole Library
regretfully announces that no visiting research fellowships
will be awarded for that year. Click
here for further details.
October 2004:
"Antiquaries
and Connoisseurs"
An antiquarian's fascination
with pieces of the past and a connoisseur's avid appreciation
for works of art were widely recognized preoccupations of
the period, and both made wonderfully tempting targets for
caricaturists. Organized by Margaret Powell, this exhibition
was on display in the Library's Side Hall through May 11,
2005.
June 2004:
On June 21, the Library hosted thirty members of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of ACRL for tours and luncheon as part of the RBMS pre-conference held at Yale.
May 2004:
"Painted
and Printed Color in Eighteenth-Century Satire,"
organized
by curator Cynthia Roman, offered nearly thirty examples
of color in printmaking in England and included works illustrating
many techniques, from hand-colored mezzotints to prints
on tinted paper. The exhibition was on view through October
6, 2004.
The third Master Class, “Reading Prints and Graphic Images 1740-1840,” taught by Brian Maidment, was held at the Library in Farmington from May 17-21.
The Library continued its support of undergraduate music at Yale by sponsoring a concert featuring the first act of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, performed by the Opera Theatre of Yale College and the Saybrook College Orchestra at Battell Chapel, May 22.
April 2004:
The Lewis Walpole Library and Jonathan Edwards College jointly sponsored:
W.A. Mozart's The
Magic Flute, presented
by the Opera Theatre of Yale College on April 2-3, 2004,
at University Theater, 222 York Street
The Lewis Walpole Library Lecture was presented:
"'The
Faithless Column and the Crumbling Bust': Alexander
Pope and Sculptural Portraiture" by Malcolm Baker, Professorial
Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and
Professor, Art History and The History of Collecting,
University of Southern California
April 23, 2004, Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
Recipients of Fellowships and Travel Grants were announced.
March 2004:
"Matrimony and Metaphor," a visual exploration of marriage as a pervasive theme in eighteenth-century graphic satire, was on view through March 8, 2004, in the Library's Side Hall.
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