Graduate Student Seminar, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9-10 June 2026 | Lewis Walpole Library Graduate Student Seminar, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9-10 June 2026 April 13, 2026 Gillian Forrester, Independent art historian and curator of the current exhibition on “Cries” will lead a collection-based seminar for graduate students Following a curator-led tour of the exhibition, the group will continue conversation with additional materials and visits to special collection study rooms at the Lewis Walpole Library, the Beinecke Library and the Yale Center for British Art. Organized and hosted by the Lewis Walpole Library , the seminar will explore the long-established traditions in visual culture of depicting street vendors “crying” or broadcasting their wares. The focus is primarily on British print culture, with the majority of the works published in and featuring London, but the exhibition also includes works in other media and will be transnational in scope. We plan to include works depicting vendors in Calcutta (present day Kolkata), the British Caribbean, Lima, New York, and Paris, and to consider how the “Cries” genre was developed into an ethnographic discourse as Britain expanded its imperial reach. For further information please email walpole@yale.edu The Lewis Walpole Library Newsletter is no longer being published.