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10/15/2009
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1/3/2010 |
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Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel St.
New Haven, CT 06510
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New Haven, CT |
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Tue.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m. |
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free |
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Call (203) 432-2800 for more details. |
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Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
15 OCTOBER, 2009 — 3 JANUARY, 2010
Horace Walpole (1717 – 1797) was the youngest son of Robert Walpole, first earl of Orford and prime minister under both George I and George II. Horace's birthright placed him at the center of society and politics, and of literary, aesthetic, and intellectual circles. His brilliant letters and other writings have made him the best-known commentator on social, political, and cultural life in eighteenth-century England. In his own day, he was most famous for his personal collections, which were displayed at Strawberry Hill, his pioneering Gothic-revival house on the banks of the Thames at Twickenham, outside London, and through which he constructed narratives of English art and history.
This groundbreaking exhibition seeks to evoke the breadth and importance of Walpole's collections at Strawberry Hill by reassembling an astonishing variety of his objects, including rare books and manuscripts, antiquities, paintings, prints and drawings, furniture, ceramics, arms and armor, and curiosities. These will be drawn frominternational public and private collections as well as those of the Center and Yale's Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut.
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill has been organized by the Center, The Lewis Walpole Library, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with contributions by an array of distinguished international scholars.
The Center is the only U.S. venue. The exhibition has been generously supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. |
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Every Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun |
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All Welcome |
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Exhibits |
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contributed |
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