Tuesday, May 10, 7 pm, Evening Public Talk: "James Gillray's Hogarthian Progresses" at the Lewis Walpole Library

Evening Public Lecture

presented by the Lewis Walpole Library and the Farmington Libraries

by exhibition curator Cynthia Roman

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7 pm

The Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT 06032

The lecture will be followed by a chance to tour the exhibition and ask questions of the curator.

Space is Limited to 35. Advanced Registration is required on the Farmington Libraries events calendar.

The talk is free and open to the public

Contact: Leah Farrell 860-673-6791 lfarrell@farmingtonlibraries.org

Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library and co-curator of the current exhibition will talk about “James Gillray’s Hogarthian Progress.” Sequential narration in satiric prints is most famously associated with the “modern moral subjects” of William Hogarth (1697–1764). James Gillray (1756–1815), celebrated for his innovative single-plate satires, was among the most accomplished printmakers to adopt Hogarthian sequential narration even as he transformed it according to his unique vision. This exhibition presents a number of Gillray’s Hogarthian progresses alongside some selected prints by Hogarth himself.

Space is limited. Registration required.

PLEASE NOTE: This program will take place at the Yale Lewis Walpole Library at 154 Main Street. Directions: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/about/directions.html.

Location: Lewis Walpole Library, 154 Main Street

Information about the exhibition: http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/programs/exhibitions.html#jghp