Newsletter - Issue 29

The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

N EWSLETTER Yale University

December 2009 Issue 29

PAUL SANDBY 18–19 March 2010 and the Geographies of Eighteenth-century British Art Conference Programme Thursday 18 March 2010 (6.30 pm) Royal Academy of Arts, Private view of the exhibition, Paul Sandby, Picturing Britain, led by John Bonehill (Curator of the Exhibition), followed by a wine reception.

Paul Sandby, Hackwood Park, Hampshire, 1763-64 (detail) (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund)

This conference addresses issues arising from the exhibition Paul Sandby: Picturing Britain, organised by the Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery (25 July– 18 October 2009; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 7 November 2009–7 February 2010; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 13 March–13 June 2010). It is the first exhibition to bring together drawings, paintings and prints by this important, if neglected, artist. It spans his long career, initially as a military draughtsman and then as a professional artist, from the Act of Union following the failure of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion to the wars with France at the century’s end. His art is arguably unrivalled among that of his contemporaries in its portrayal of a range of subjects – rural and urban, modern and historical – in a country experiencing rapid social change and commercial development.

Friday 19 March 2010 Paul Mellon Centre Registration 9.15 am Morning session introduced and chaired by Kim Sloan (Department of Prints & Drawings, British Museum) Keynote address by Bruce Robertson (University of California, Santa Barbara) Paul Sandby: Father of English Watercolour?; Tim Wilcox (Independent Scholar), Burying the Hatchet: Paul Sandby at Luton Park; Finola O’Kane (University College Dublin), ‘A Genuine Idea of the Face of the Kingdom’? Jonathan Fisher and Paul Sandby’s portrait of Ireland within the frame of Great Britain ; John Barrell (University of York), A Common in Wales: Edward Pugh, the Pastoral, and Progress Afternoon session introduced and chaired by Shearer West (Director of Research, Arts and Humanities Research Council); Gillian Forrester (Prints & Drawings, Yale Center for British Art), ‘No Joke Like a True Joke’?

‘Twelve London Cries done from the Life’; Nick Grindle (University College London), Living in London and Windsor: The Sandby brothers’ residences, c.1752–1809; Carolyn Anderson (University of Edinburgh), ‘The art of depicting with a soldier’s eye’: The Military Mapping of Eighteenth-Century Scotland; Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham), ‘Great Balls of Fire’: Representing the Remarkable Meteor of 18th August 1783; Panel and audience discussion chaired by Sam Smiles (Emeritus, University of Plymouth) 6.15 pm Wine reception

Full conference fee for both days, including coffee, lunch, tea and receptions: £40. Student and Senior concessions £20.

To register for the conference please check availability with Ella Fleming at the Paul Mellon Centre: Email: events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Brian Allen Assistant Director for Academic Activities: Martin Postle Assistant Director for Administration: Kasha Jenkinson Librarian: Emma Floyd Archivist: Emma Lauze IT/Website/Picture Research: Maisoon Rehani Administrative Assistant: Ella Fleming Yale-in-London Coordinator: Viv Redhead Grants Administrator: Mary Peskett Smith Editor Special Projects: Guilland Sutherland Special Projects: Hugh Belsey, Elizabeth Einberg, John Ingamells, Alex Kidson, Paul Spencer-Longhurst. Advisory Council: Caroline Arscott, Paul Binski, Andrew Causey, Philippa Glanville, Mark Hallett, Sandy Nairne, Marcia Pointon, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Duncan Robinson, Michael Rosenthal, Gavin Stamp, Christine Stevenson Company Registered in England 983028 Registered Charity 313838 16 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730 www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk

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CONFERENCE AND LECTURE

ANTIQUITY AT HOME

28–29 January 2010

A conference organised by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum Conference programme Thursday 28 Jan. 2010, BP Lecture Theatre, British Museum (6.30 pm) Keynote lecture by David Watkin (Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Professor Emeritus in the History of Architecture, University of Cambridge), From Antiquity to Enlightenment: the origins of the British Museum Friday 29 Jan. 2010, The Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedford Square (Registration 9.15 am) Tribute to Ilaria Bignamini by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Morning session: Objects Introduced and chaired by Kim Sloan Ian Jenkins, The Townley Discobolus; Elizabeth Angelicoussis, The Hope Dionysus; Eloisa Dodero, Clytie before Townley: the Gaetani d’Aragona collection of sculptures and its Neapolitan context; Maria Dolores Sánchez-Jáuregui Alpañés, Sculptures on board ‘The Westmorland’: A crosssection of Grand Tour collecting; Jonathan Yarker, The ‘Paper Museum’ of Charles Townley; Thorsten Opper, Lyde Browne – The House Museum as Sales Room Franciszek Smuglewicz, Group Portrait of Aubrey, 2nd Baron Vere of Harmsworth and family (detail), Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums, Gloucestershire. © Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums /Bridgeman

This conference will be an opportunity to address the subject of the collecting of antiquities in Europe, focussing on England and Italy, in the eighteenth century. The event coincides with the publication by Yale University Press of Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth Century Rome, a book begun by the noted Grand Tour scholar, the late Ilaria Bignamini, and completed by Clare Hornsby. This project, based on a mass of archival material, explores in close detail the involvement of the British in Rome in the enormously active market in marbles and other antiquities in the mid- to late-eighteenth century.

Afternoon session: Collections Introduced and chaired by Edward Chaney Jason Kelly, The Society of Dilettanti and the Planning of a Museum; Anna Seidel, Display and dispersal of the Montalto-Negroni marbles ; Adriano Aymonino, A Roman columbarium on the river Thames: Robert Adam’s librarygallery at Syon House ; Ruth Guilding, Sir Richard Worsley, Connoisseur of the Parthenon; Clare Hornsby, Collecting or accumulation? Thoughts on motivation; Tim Knox, Soane and the Antique, and some reflections on house museums then and now Closing panel chaired by Frank Salmon 5.30-7.00 Wine reception This conference is now fully booked.To put your name on the reserve list, please contact Ella Fleming: Email: events@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax: 020 7636 6730

Salvator Rosa in Britain Call for Papers (see www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/events) The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art will be hosting a conference, Salvator Rosa in Britain, on 18 October 2010, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, to accompany the exhibition Salvator Rosa (1615-1673): Bandits, Wilderness and Magic, to be held there from 15 September–28 November 2010.

Rosa has always had a double importance for art in Britain, as both painter and phenomenon, and the conference aims to explore his vast impact on both painters and writers. Please send a 500-word outline of your proposal for a 25-minute presentation, along with a CV and a list of publications. Deadline for submission of proposals is 29th January 2010.

The proposal should be sent to the conference organizer, Helen Langdon, at Helenlangdon@hotmail.com

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CURIOUS SPECIMENS 15–16 April 2010 Enlightenment Objects, Collections, Narratives world of natural history with court culture and in particular the collections of the Duchess of Portland.

This conference will address eighteenth-century pre occupations with the ordering of both the natural world and material culture, which required new ways of thinking about the classification of objects. Papers will examine issues of collecting, collectors and their circles; the creation of artisanal productions as forms of collecting; and intersections and tensions between antiquarian, aesthetic, and scientific cultures of collecting.

Conference Programme Thursday 15 April 2010 Keynote lecture, 5.00 pm at Royal College of Surgeons Pamela Smith (Columbia): ‘Curious Modes of Production: Making Objects in the Early Modern World ’.

Detail from John Carter, “The Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels,” n.d., from Horace Walpole’s copy of A Description of the Villa…at Strawberry-Hill (1784), Copy 11, p. 161, courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library,Yale University

A conference organized by Birkbeck, University of London; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the Yale Center for British Art; the Lewis Walpole Library. Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre.

This conference brings together academic and museum scholars to present and discuss new perspectives on eighteenth-century practices of collecting, using as its focus two exhibitions, Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill (V&A, 6 March–4 July 2010) and Mrs Delany and her Circle (Sir John Soane’s Museum, 19 February–1 May 2010).

Horace Walpole (1717–1797) was a central figure in eighteenth-century social and cultural life and the most important collector of English historical artifacts and objects, including manuscripts, rare books, ceramics, portrait miniatures, prints, paintings, antiquities, armour and other curiosities, which he arranged in his Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill. Mary Delany (1700–1788) is best known for her cut-paper collages of botanically accurate flowers and floral embroidery designs, which connect the To register for the conference contact the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Online booking: www.vam.ac.uk/tickets Telephone booking: 020 7942 2211 Conference fee £36 (includes lunch and evening wine reception) with concessions available.

Friday 16 April 2010 at Victoria & Albert Museum 10.00 am Registration Session 1: WALPOLE AND DELANY, chaired by Amy Meyers Michael Snodin (V&A); Alicia Weisberg Roberts (The Walters Art Museum) Session 2: CUTTING, SAMPLING, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATING, chaired by Alicia Weisberg Roberts Lucy Peltz (NPG), An Author Extra-illustrates his Books: Thomas Pennant, Horace Walpole and the slippage between research, writing and reading in the late 18th century; Janice Neri (Boise State University, Idaho), Paper Kingdoms: Mary Delany, the Duchess of Portland, and the Consequences of Collage Session 3: COLLECTORS, PREDISCIPLINARITY, DIVISIONS OF KNOWLEDGE, chaired by Brian Allen Stacey Sloboda (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Material Displays: Porcelain and Natural History in the Duchess of Portland’s Museum; Adriano Aymonino (Independent Scholar, London), A Mirror of the Enlightenment: The Collections of Elizabeth Seymour Percy, 1st Duchess of Northumberland; Craig Hanson (Calvin College, Michigan), Collecting Virtue: The Patronage and Acquisitions of Dr Richard Mead in Early Georgian London Plenary: chaired by Margaret Powell (Lewis Walpole Library) Stephen Bann (University of Bristol), Curiosity future and past: Siting Horace Walpole; chaired by Margaret Powell (Lewis Walpole Library, Yale) 6.00 pm Reception and viewing of Strawberry Hill exhibition

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PUBLICATIONS

Digging and Dealing in Eighteenthcentury Rome by Ilaria Bignamini, Clare Hornsby

The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment by Jason M. Kelly

Ruskin on Venice ‘The Paradise of Cities’ by Robert Hewison

This important and long-awaited book offers a first overview of all British-led excavation sites in and around Rome in the Golden Age of the Grand Tour. Based on work carried out by the late Ilaria Bignamini, the authors have undertaken the monumental task of tracing scultures and other works of art that are currently in public collections around the world from their original find sites via the dealers and entrepreneurs to the private collectors in Britain. In the first of two extensively illustrated volumes, approximately fifty sites are analysed in historical and topographical detail, supported by fifty newly researched biographies of the major names in the Anglo-Italian world of dealing and collecting. Essays by Bignamini and Hornsby introduce the field of study and elucidate the complex bureaucracy of the relevant departments of the Papal courts.

The second volume is a collection of hundreds of letters from the dealers and excavators abroad to collectors in England. The book is an invaluable resource for scholars working in a rapidly expanding area where European art and cultural history meets archaeology.

In 1732, a group of elite young men, calling themselves the Society of Dilettanti, held their first meeting in London. The qualification for membership was travel to Italy where the original members had met each other on the grand tour. Formed as a convivial dining society, by the middle of the eighteenth century the Dilettanti took on an influential role in cultural matters. It was the first European organization fully to subsidize an archaeological expedition to the lands of classical Greece, and its members were important sponsors of new institutions such as the Royal Academy and the British Museum. This lively and illuminating account, based on extensive archival research, is the most detailed analysis of the early Society of Dilettanti to date. Not simply an institutional biography, it sheds new light on eighteenthcentury g rand tourism, elite masculinity, sociability, aesthetics, architecture and archaeology.

For John Ruskin, Venice represented his ideal of civic society, where culture, government and faith were in creative harmony – ‘The Paradise of Cities’.

This was not the fallen city of the Renaissance, the Paradise Lost that it became in his lifetime, but the Gothic Eden that he imagined had existed before the sixteenth century. In this elegant and compelling book, Ruskin’s long and intricate relationship with the city is traced: from 1835 he watched Venice change from postNapoleonic ruin to a province of the Austrian Empire, and then experience new ruin in the revolution of 1848.

Venice was witness to the failure of his marriage, and, later, the collapse of his hopes for a new one. By the time of Ruskin’s final visit in 1888, the march of modernity had made Venice a dead replica of its former glory. Hewison draws on the rich resources of Ruskin’s drawings, architectural notebooks and manuscripts (including previously unpublished daguerreotypes from Ruskin’s own collection).

Jason Kelly is Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Robert Hewison is Professor of Cultural Policy and Leadership Studies at the City University, London.

He writes for the Sunday Times and is the author of many books.

January 2010 288 & 176 pp. 200 b/w + 50 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-16043-7 £45.00

November 2009 320 pp. 100 b/w + 20 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15219-7 £40.00

January 2010 500 pp. 105. b/w + 25 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-12178-0 £45.00

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PUBLICATIONS

The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight

by Malcolm Jones

Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed by Paula Murphy

Churches in Early Medieval Ireland

by Tomás Ó Carragáin

This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and brings to light some very recent discoveries. This large body of material is treated thematically, and within each theme, chronologically. Chapters are devoted to portents and prodigies, the formal moralities, doctrines and sects of Christianity, visual satire of foreigners and ‘others’, domestic political issues – principally, the English Civil War – social criticism and gender roles, mar riage and se x , as well as numerous miscellaneous visual tricks, puzzles and jokes. The concluding chapter considers the significance of this wealth of visual material for the cultural history of England in the early modern era. Tracing the European sources of many of these prints leads to the surprising recognition of the influence of the German print repertoire that demands a re-appraisal of cultural relations between England and Germany during the early modern era.

Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works, of such major figures as Patrick MacDowell, John Henry Foley, Thomas Kirk and Thomas Farrell, as well as works by a host of lesser-known sculptors, produced during the Victorian period. Lavishly illustrated, the book covers the work of many Irish sculptors who worked abroad, particularly in London, and the work of English sculptors, including John Flaxman, Francis Chantrey, E.H. Baily and Richard Westmacott, who worked in Ireland. Murphy makes extensive use of contemporary documentation, much of it from newspapers, to present the sculptors and their work in the religious and political context of their time.

This is the first book devoted to churches in Ireland from the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century to the early stages of the Romanesque around 1100, including those built to house treasures of the golden age of Irish art such as the Book of Kells and the Ardagh chalice.

A comprehensive su r vey of the surviving examples forms the basis for a far-reaching analysis of why these buildings looked as they did, and what they meant in the context of early Irish society.

The striking simplicity of these buildings is a result not of ignorance of architecture elsewhere in Europe, but of an imperative to perpetuate a building form derived largely from Romano-British and biblical exemplars, that had become associated with the saints who had christianised Ireland and founded its great ecclesiastical centres. Intended to recall distant sacred topographies, the Irish Romanesque represents the perpetuation of a long-established architectural tradition.

Malcolm Jones is Senior Lecturer, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Sheffield.

Paula Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at University College Dublin. She is the leading expert on Irish sculpture, and is the editor of the sculpture volume for the Royal Irish Academy Art and Architecture Tomás Ó Carragáin lectures in of Ireland project, forthcoming from the Department of Archaeology, University College Cork.

Yale.

April 2010 400 pp. 270 b/w + 30 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-13697-5 £45.00

May 2010 320 pp. 250 b/w + 60 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15909-7 £45.00

May 2010 288 pp. 180 b/w + 40 colour illus.

ISBN 978-0-300-15444-3 £40.00

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GRANT AWARDS

Grant Awards At the November 2009 meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the following grants were awarded: CURATORIAL RESEARCH GRANTS Bath Spa University to help support a curator for four months to work on an exhibition Wyndham Lewis, 1882-1957 at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome to help support a research curator for three years to catalogue Antiquarian Drawings in the British Museum The National Trust to help support a curator for three years to research and catalogue the National Trust’s Tapestry Collection Royal Collection to help support a part-time research curator for three years to revise Oliver Millar’s Catalogues of the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian Pictures in the Royal Collection Greg Sullivan to help support a researcher for one year to work on an online version of the Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME GRANTS University of Birmingham Modernism and Utopia: Convergences in the Arts a conference at Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, 23-24 April 2010 Courtauld Institute of Art New Approaches to British Art, 1939-1969 a conference at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4-5 June 2010 Northwestern University, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections, a symposium at Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, USA, 27 February 2010 National Portrait Gallery Tudor and Jacobean Painting: Production, Influences and Patronage a conference at the National Portrait Gallery and Courtauld Institute of Art, 2-4 December 2010 University of Plymouth Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Acquisition of Genius, a conference at University of Plymouth, 8-9 January 2010 Royal Cambrian Academy of Art An Artistic Inheritance: the legacy of Welsh artist Richard Wilson, the father of British Landscape Painting a study programme at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy, November 2009

BARNS-GRAHAM RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANT John Curley for research in the UK on The Art that Came in from the Cold: Painting, Photography, and Cold War Visuality RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS John Barrell for research in the UK on ‘Edward Pugh’s Denbighshire’ George Breeze for research in the UK on ‘The Craftsman Painter: Joseph Southall and the Tempera Revival’ Luca Caddia for research in the UK on ‘Sub Rosa Aeternitatis: Alma-Tadema and the Collection of Identity’ Viccy Coltman for research in India on ‘Scots in India’ Sonja Drimmer for research costs for her work on ‘ The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower’s Confessio Amantis ’ Katharine Eustace for research in the UK on ‘Hew Lorimer (1907-1993), A Sculptor’s Life in Context’ Kristen Fairey for research in the UK on ‘Tres testimonium dant: The Architecture and Rhetoric of Sir Thomas Tresham’s three lodges of the 1590s’ Ivelin Ivanov for research in the UK on ‘Between Imagination and Reality: War in 13th-15th century English Gothic Manuscripts’ Roy Kozlovsky for research in the UK on ‘The Architecture of Childhood: English modernism and the Welfare State’ Caroline Malloy for research in the UK on ‘A Bit of Irish for Everyone: Visual and Material Fragments of Irishness at International Exhibitions, 1851-1939’ Bénédicte Miyamoto for research in the UK on ‘The Value of Art in Eighteenth-century Britain: moral, aesthetic and economic perspectives’ David Taylor for research in the UK on ‘Theatre and Graphic Satire, 1737-1837’ PUBLICATION GRANTS (AUTHOR) Alison Brisby George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843-1911) Sarah Burnage & Laura Turner William Etty RA Elizabeth Chang Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century Martin Cook Edward Prior (1852-1932): Architect, scholar and gentleman Richard Cork Merc y, Madness, Pestilence and Hope: A History of Western Art and Hospitals Gordon Crosskey Old Sheffield Plate: A History of the 18th Century Plated Trade

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GRANT AWARDS

Grant Awards Elizabeth Eger Bluestockings Displayed: portraiture, performance and patronage, 1730-1830 Douglas Fordham Allegiance and Autonomy: British Art and the Seven Years’ War Tim Fulford ‘The Banks of Wye’: A Critical Edition of a Picturesque Sketchbook, Journal and Poem Hilary Grainger The Architecture of Sir Ernest George and Partners Albert Grimstone Building Pembroke Chapel: Wren, Pearce and Scott Christiane Hille ‘In ‘Britainnes glorious eye’: Changing Images of the Courtly Body in Stuart Masque and Painting Holger Hoock Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 Alex Kidson Early British Paintings in the Walker Art Gallery and at Sudley House Leonee Ormond Linley Sambourne Lene Østermark-Johansen Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture Christiana Payne John Brett Amy Sargeant The Servant Kevin Sharpe Rebranding Rule: Images of Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714 Frances Spalding The Art of Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped Margaret Willes Circles of Cultivation: Gardeners and Gardens 1560-1660 PUBLICATION GRANTS (PUBLISHER) Agnes Etherington Art Centre John Bonehill, Barbara Klempan, David de Witt, Janet M. Brooke, View of Gibraltar: Wrong or Wright?

Antiquarian Horological Society (AHS) Ian White, English Clockmakers Trading in the Chinese and Ottoman Markets, 1580-1815 Ashgate Publishing Company Lene ØstermarkJohansen, Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture Ashgate Publishing Company Helen Hills (Ed.) Reframing the Baroque Barber Institute of Fine Arts Christiana Payne & Ann Sumner, Objects of Affection: Pre-Raphaelite Portraits

by John Brett Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Colin Cruise, The Poetry of Drawing: Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and Watercolours British Art Journal Robin Simon (Ed.) The British Art Journal, 10th Anniversary Special Issue

Church Monuments Society Sally Badham, ‘A painted canvas funeral monument of 1615 in the Society of Antiquaries of London and its comparators’ Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) Tim Ayers, The Medieval Stained Glass of Merton College, Oxford Frontier Publishing Geoff Archer, The Glorious Dead: Figurative Sculpture of the British First World War Memorials IHS BRE Press Martin Cook, Edward Prior (18521932): Architect, scholar and gentleman Kettles Yard, University of Cambridge H.S. Ede, Savage Messiah: A biography of the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (new edition) Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Frances Spalding, The Art of Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Borough Council John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893): Painter of Moonlight Nottingham City Museums and Galleries Robin Hildyard, Adrian Henstock & Pamela Wood, ‘Made at Nottingham’: Nottingham Brown Salt-glazed Stoneware 1690-1800 Oxford University Press Patrick Wright, Flying Didn’t Help: The British Discovery of Mao’s China Paul Holberton Publishing Leonee Ormond, Linley Sambourne University of Pennsylvania Press Douglas Fordham, Allegiance and Autonomy: British Art and the Seven Years’ War Public Catalogue Foundation Oil Paintings in Public Ownership series published by PCF and the YourPaintings website published by the BBC and PCF RIBA Enterprises Ltd Louise Campbell, Miles Glendinning & Jane Thomas, Sir Basil Spence: Buildings and Projects Spire Books Ltd Christopher Webster, R.D. Chantrell (1793-1872) and the Architecture of a Lost Generation Stanford University Press Elizabeth Chang, Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century V & A Publishing Charlotte Gere, Artistic Circles: Design and Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement Walpole Society Eckart Marchand, Alison E. Wright & Hugh Brigstocke, Walpole Volume 2010: Flaxman and Ottley in Italy Wolverhampton Art Gallery Cranbrook Colony of Artists: Fresh Perspective

ya l e center for british art

1080 Chapel Street P.O. Box 208280 New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8280 www.yale.edu/ycba

For complete details of the following Center exhibitions and programs, please visit www.yale.edu/ycba; phone: 001 203 432 2800; or e-mail: ycba.info@yale.edu.

Proportionable Rapture: Inigo Jones and the Measure of a Building, Christy Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of Art, University of Toronto

exhibitions

Art in Focus Student Guide Exhibition John Flaxman Modeling the Bust of William Hayley 4 February–30 May 2010

Mrs. Delany and her Circle at the Center through 3 January 2010; Sir John Soane’s Museum,18 February– 1 May 2010. Organized by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane’s Museum. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg Roberts.

Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill at the Center through 3 January 2010; V&A, 6 March–4 July 2010. Organized by the Lewis Walpole Library, YaleUniversity; the Yale Center for British Art; and the V&A. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue edited by Michael Snodin with the assistance of Cynthia Roman.

Varieties of Romantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp 4 February–25 April 2010. Organized by the Yale Center for British Art. This remarkable exhibition will treat Romanticism as an international phenomenon by bringing together nearly two hundred British and European drawings from the outstanding collection of Charles Ryskamp, director emeritus of the Morgan Library & Museum and Frick Collection in New York; accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue of thematic essays by Matthew Hargraves, with a preface by Charles Ryskamp.

Wednesday, 31 March, 5:30 pm, opening lecture: Serendipity at Yale or The Less Traveled Road, Charles Ryskamp. Wednesday, 21 April, 5:30 pm, lecture: “Lonely as a Cloud”: Cloud Studies in Romantic Art, Matthew Hargraves, Assistant Curator for Collections Research, Yale Center for British Art.

RELATED PROGRAMS:

Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, 1500–1750 18 February–30 May 2010. Organized by the Museum of the History of Science at the University of Oxford and the Yale Center for British Art. This exhibition examines the role of mathematics in the transformation of both architectural design and the role of the architect; accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue by Anthony Gerbino and Stephen Johnston with a contribution by Gordon Higgott.

Wednesday, 24 February, 5:30 pm, opening lecture: The Paper Revolution: Drawing in English Architectural Practice 1500–1750, Anthony Gerbino, architectural historian. Wednesday, 14 April, 5:30 pm, lecture:

RELATED PROGRAMS:

conference Curious Specimens: Enlightenment Objects, Collections, Narratives, 15–17 April 2010. In conjunction with Mrs. Delany and her Circle and Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, the Center will present a conference in London, in collaboration with the Paul Mellon Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London; the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; and the V&A. Advance registration for a limited number of spaces will be open to the public at www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk. See page 3 for details.

senior visiting scholar April–May 2010 Professor Dame Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President of Clare Hall (ret.), University of Cambridge, who is in the second year of her three-year tenure as our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Visiting Scholar.

spring 2010 visiting scholars Catherine Anderson, Lecturer in Art History, University of California, Davis; Luca Caddia, independent scholar; Luisa Calè, Lecturer, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK; Zirwat Chowdhury, PhD candidate, Northwestern University; Margaretta Frederick, Curator, Bancroft Collection, Delaware Art Museum; William Pressly, Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland; and Romita Ray, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University.

p u b l i c at i o n s Varieties of Romantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp is published by the Center in association with Yale University Press; Compass & Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in England, published

by Yale University Press in association with the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, and the Yale Center for British Art; The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901–1910, edited by Morna O’Neill and Michael Hatt, the twentieth volume in the series Studies in British Art, is published by the Center in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press.

Yale Center for British Art, photo by Richard Caspole