Online Talk | Julie Park, Lady Scott’s Landscape in a Dark Room

Posted in lectures (to attend), online learning by Editor on December 5, 2023

Paul Sandby, Roslin Castle, Midlothian, ca. 1780, gouache on medium laid paper, mounted on board, sheet: 46 × 68 cm
(New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1975.4.1877)

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This afternoon from 12.30 to 1.00, from the Yale Center for British Art:

Julie Park | Lady Scott’s Landscape in a Dark Room
Online, Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 12.30pm

Julie Park will discuss the role of the camera obscura used by Lady Frances Scott as depicted in Paul Sandby’s landscape painting Roslin Castle, Midlothian (ca. 1780) and the dynamics of interiority and looking that it mediates. Park chose a detail from this painting for the cover of her recent monograph My Dark Room, which explores the camera obscura as a paradigm for the designs and experiences of interiority in eighteenth-century England’s spaces of the built environment. Please register here»

Julie Park is Paterno Family Librarian for Literature and professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of My Dark Room (2023) and The Self and It (2009).