Lewis Walpole Library

Free and open to the public Wednesdays, 2-4:30 pm, and by appointment. On view through August 21.Curated by Gillian Forrester, independent art historian, curator, and writer
The exhibition explores the long-established genre of the “Cries,” or the representation of street vendors “crying” or broadcasting their wares. The chronological scope of the exhibition is between 1711, when the first edition of Marcellus Laroon’s Cryes of the City of London was issued, and the publication of John Thomson’s Street Life in London in 1877. &nbsp;The focus is primarily on British print culture, with the majority of the works published in and featuring London, but the exhibition includes works in other media and is transnational in scope.

Local Event: Exhibition: "Street Life: The 'Cries' in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877"

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Exhibition: "Street Life: The 'Cries' in...

Free and open to the public Wednesdays, 2-4:30 pm, and by appointment. On view through August 21.Curated by Gillian Forrester,...

Exhibition: "Street Life: The 'Cries' in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877"

Free and open to the public Wednesdays, 2-4:30 pm, and by appointment. On view through August 21.
Curated by Gillian Forrester, independent art historian, curator, and writer
The exhibition explores the long-established genre of the “Cries,” or the representation of street vendors “crying” or broadcasting their wares.
The chronological scope of the exhibition is between 1711, when the first edition of Marcellus Laroon’s Cryes of the City of London was issued, and the publication of John Thomson’s Street Life in London in 1877. &nbsp;The focus is primarily on British print culture, with the majority of the works published in and featuring London, but the exhibition includes works in other media and is transnational in scope.

Free and open to the public Wednesdays, 2-4:30 pm, and by appointment. On view through August 21.
Curated by Gillian Forrester,...

Lewis Walpole Library-Farmington Libraries Exhibition TalkBy&nbsp;Gillian Forrester, Independent art historian, curator, and writerThursday,&nbsp;June 11, 7-8 pm <a href="https://www.farmingtonlibraries.org/event/street-life-cries-british-visual-culture-1711-1877-gillian-forrester-independent-art" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Registration required</a>
This evening talk by exhibition guest curator Gillian Forrester, is the latest in the series of community-focused evening talks offered in collaboration between the Lewis Walpole Library and the Farmington Libraries in connection with the exhibition on view at the Lewis Walpole Library. The talk will be followed by a period for questions, refreshments, and an opportunity to visit the exhibition with the curator on-site.<figure><img src="https://cdn20.patchcdn.com/users/224283/20260519/094347/gillian___19094346154.jpg" id="GILLIAN.png" data-image="GILLIAN.png"></figure>Gillian Forrester&nbsp;is an independent art historian, curator, and writer. She was formerly Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art and specializes in British print culture in a transnational context.&nbsp; She co-edited&nbsp;Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds&nbsp;(Yale University Press, 2007), which won the College Art Association’s 2009 Alfred H. Barr Jr., Award for an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, and contributed a chapter on nineteenth-century Jamaican photography to&nbsp;Victorian Jamaica&nbsp;(Duke University Press, 2018). She has a particular interest in the prints of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, and has published extensively on both artists. Other publications include essays on British WW1 prints for&nbsp;Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939&nbsp;(Yale University Press, 2021), on Christiane Baumgartner’s recent woodcuts (Cristea Roberts Gallery, 2021), and on the African-Caribbean painter Hurvin Anderson (Tate, 2026).Gillian Forrester&nbsp;is an independent art historian, curator, and writer. She was formerly Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Yale Center for British Art and specializes in British print culture in a transnational context.&nbsp; She co-edited&nbsp;Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds&nbsp;(Yale University Press, 2007), which won the College Art Association’s 2009 Alfred H. Barr Jr., Award for an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, and contributed a chapter on nineteenth-century Jamaican photography to&nbsp;Victorian Jamaica&nbsp;(Duke University Press, 2018). She has a particular interest in the prints of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, and has published extensively on both artists. Other publications include essays on British WW1 prints for&nbsp;Modern Times: British Prints, 1913-1939&nbsp;(Yale University Press, 2021), on Christiane Baumgartner’s recent woodcuts (Cristea Roberts Gallery, 2021), and on the African-Caribbean painter Hurvin Anderson (Tate, 2026).
The exhibition <a href="https://walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/exhibitions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Street Life: The “Cries” in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877</a> is on view at the Lewis Walpole Library through August 21, 2026.
<h5>Please note: Bags are not permitted in the library.</h5>

Local Event: Exhibition Talk: "Street Life: The 'Cries' in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877"

Exhibition Talk: "Street Life: The 'Cries' in...

Lewis Walpole Library-Farmington Libraries Exhibition TalkBy Gillian Forrester, Independent art historian, curator, and...

Exhibition Talk: "Street Life: The 'Cries' in British Visual Culture, 1711-1877"