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From the Lewis Walpole Library:

Hogarth: His Art, Life, and Times — A Tribute to Ronald Paulson

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 14–16 October 2026

Organized by Cynthia Roman

Presented by the Lewis Walpole Library in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Library, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, this symposium celebrates the generous gift by Professor Paulson (1930–2024) of his papers together with a legacy endowment to establish a fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library in memory of his son, Andrew Meredith Paulson.

Additional Programming
• Film screenings
• Study Room visits and gallery tours by advance sign-up
• Exhibition | Satire, Sympathy, and Social Critique: William Hogarth’s Progress Prints, on view at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (12 October 2026 — 30 May 2027)

Required registration can be completed here»

This program is made possible through the support of the Lewis Walpole Library and a generous gift of Richard Greenberg in memory of Ronald Paulson.

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William Hogarth, The Harlot Beats Hemp in Bridewell Prison, from A Harlot’s Progress, plate 4, 1732 (The Lewis Walpole Library, Gift of Richard Greenberg).

4.30  Welcome

4.45  Panel 1 | Paulson’s Hogarth
Moderator: Jill Campbell (Professor of English, Yale University)
• Zirwat Chowdhury (Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art, UCLA) — Lessing’s Hogarth, Hogarth’s Paulson
• Douglas Fordham (Professor of Art History, University of Virginia) — Breaking and Remaking Hogarth’s Bristol Altarpiece
• Caroline Patey (Professore Ordinario di Letteratura Inglese, Università degli Studi, Milano) — William Hogarth, the Novel Maker

6.15  Breakout Session

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10.15  Panel 2 | Drawing
Moderator: Laurel Peterson (Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, YCBA)
• Zoë Dostal (Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Amherst College) — Life Models, Hemp Rope, and the Line of Beauty
• Stacey Sloboda (Paul H. Tucker Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts, Boston) — Boys Peeping at Nature: Drawing and Modeling at the St. Martin’s Lane Academy
• Jennifer Tonkovich (Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator, Morgan Library) — The Mutable Page: Hogarth’s Drawings

2.00  Breakout Session

3.45  Breakout Session

5.00  Reception at Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library
Exhibition on view: Satire, Sympathy, and Social Critique: William Hogarth’s Progress Prints

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10.15  Panel 3 | Nation and Empire
Moderator: Tim Barringer (Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University)
• Holly Shaffer (Associate Professor of Art and Architecture, Brown University) — The Two Tastes: Food and Art in Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty
• Pierre Von-Ow (Associate Lecturer in Early Modern Art History, University of St. Andrews) — A New British Order: Hogarth’s Design for a Domestic Column Capital
• Catherine Roach (Associate Professor of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University) — ‘Purely English’: Hogarth, Nation, and Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century

12.00  Breakout Session

2.00  Panel 4 | Social and Political Critique
Moderator: Miya Tokumitsu (Donald T. Fallati and Ruth E. Pachman Curator of the Davison Art Collections)
• Meredith Gamer (Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University) — Hogarth’s Children
• Andrew Rudd (Director of Studies at Anglo Educational Services in London) — Hogarth, Walpole, and London’s Children’s Charities
• Phil Withington (Professor of Social and Cultural History, University of Sheffield) — Hogarth, Addiction, and Political Economy in Early Modern London

3.45  Breakout Session