Exhibition | James Gillray’s Hogarthian Progresses
From The Lewis Walpole Library:
James Gillray’s Hogarthian Progresses
The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, 6 April — 16 September 2016
Curated by Cynthia Roman
James Gillray, The life of William-Cobbett, written by himself. : Now you lying varlets you shall see how a plain tale will put you down! / Js. Gillray inv. & fec. Published in London, 29 September 1809 (Lewis Walpole Library).
Sequential narration in satiric prints is most famously associated with the ‘modern moral subjects’ of William Hogarth (1697–1764): Harlot’s Progress (1732), A Rake’s Progress (1735), Marriage A-la-Mode (1745), and Industry and Idleness (1747) among others. Less well-known is the broad spectrum of legacy ‘progresses’ produced by subsequent generations drawing both on Hogarth’s narrative strategies and his iconic motifs. James Gillray (1756–1815), celebrated for his innovative single-plate satires, was also 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.
P R O G R A M S
Study Day
James Gillray’s Experimental Printmaking
Organized by Esther Chadwick, History of Art, Yale University and Cynthia Roman, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 10 June 2016
Graduate Student Seminar
Collecting the Graphic Work of William Hogarth
Sheila O’Connell, Former Curator of Prints, British Museum, 14 June 2016
Graduate Student Seminar
Connoisseurship: Graphic Satire from William Hogarth to James Gillray
Andrew Edmunds, Collector and Dealer, 15 June 2016
Master Class for Graduate Students
A Contest of Two Genres: Graphic Satire and British History Painting in the Long Eighteenth Century
Mark Salber Phillips, Professor of History at Carleton University, Ottawa, and Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library, 22–26 August 2016
Master Class for Graduate Students
The Comic Image 1800–1850: Narrative and Caricature
Brian Maidment, Professor of the History of Print, Liverpool John Moores University
Cynthia Roman, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library, 14—16 September 2016
Conference | Creating the Europe 1600–1815 Galleries at the V&A
Pierre-Denis Martin, The Château de Juvisy,
165cm x 265cm, ca. 1700 (London: V&A)
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From H-ArtHist:
Creating the Europe 1600–1815 Galleries
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 8 April 2016
This conference celebrates the opening of the V&A’s new Europe 1600–1815 Galleries. It will introduce some of the new patterns of living that laid the foundations for our modern world. The papers will be presented according to the three main themes that create a narrative structure for the displays and interpretation in the galleries: first, that, for the first time ever, Europeans systematically explored, exploited, and collected resources from Africa, Asia and the Americas in their art and design; second, that France took over from Italy as leader of fashion and art in the second half of the 17th century; and third, that ways of living came to resemble those we know today. The conference is supported by The Heritage Lottery Fund.
Booking information is available here»
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P R O G R A M M E
10.00 Registration
10.30 Welcome by Bill Sherman (Head of Collections and Research, V&A)
10.40 Session One: The Europe Galleries 1600–1815 at the V&A
• Why Does 17th- and 18th-century Europe Matter Now?, John Styles (Professor of History, University of Hertfordshire, Senior Research Fellow, V&A)
• Creating the Europe 1600–1815 Galleries, Lesley Miller (Lead Curator, Europe 1600–1815 Galleries, V&A) and Lucy Trench (Head of Interpretation, Science Museum, formerly Lead Educator, Europe 1600–1815 Galleries, V&A)
11.40 Session Two: Explored and Exploited
• A Global Context for Europe, Beverly Lemire (Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta)
• The Cabinet: Collecting Art and Science, Eric Jorink (Tylers Professor of Enlightenment and Religion, Leiden University and a Research Professor, Department of History of Science and Scholarship, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)
• Displaying Spain and Spanish America, 1600–1720, Kirstin Kennedy (Curator of Metalwork, V&A)
13.15 Lunch
14:00 Session Three: The Rise of France
• The Invention of Comfort in the Modern City, Joan DeJean, (Trustee Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania)
• Luxury and Shopping in the Long Eighteenth Century, Natacha Coquery (Professor of History, University of Lyon II; INHA, Paris)
• Displaying French Historical Interiors: La Tournerie and the Serilly Cabinet, Joanna Norman (Senior Curator, Research Department, V&A)
15.15 Refreshments
15:45 Session Four: Then and Now
• The Impact of the Enlightenment, Colin Jones (Professor of History, Queen Mary’s, University of London)
• Fashion in Print, Patrick Steorn (Director, Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm; participant in HERA Fashioning the Early Modern Research Project)
• Bringing Interactivity into the Galleries: The Masquerade, Dawn Hoskin and Nadine Langford (Assistant Curator and Assistant Educator, Europe 1600–1815, V&A)
16:45 Closing Remarks on V&A’s Approach to Gallery Development, Sofía Rodriguez Bernis (Director of Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid)
Enfilade 
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