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A Lecture by Peter Trippi
J.W. Waterhouse and the Theater:
Painting With an Eye on the Stage

The Grolier Club, 47 E. 60^th Street
New York City, New York
Tuesday 22 April, 2008  6:00 p.m.

The great Victorian painter J.W. Waterhouse R.A. (1849-1917) is known worldwide as a “late Pre-Raphaelite” because he discovered, and began revitalizing, the visual legacy of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as late as 1886. This lecture looks closely at the phenomenon of associating Waterhouse’s paintings with the so-called “brooding divas of the stage” in the 1880’s and 90’s, such as Sarah Bernhardt.

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We have moved!

Effective September 1, 2007 our new address and phone/fax information will be as follows:

The Victorian Society in America
1634 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-636-9872

The new office space is in the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, the 11th oldest Baptist Church in the US (founded in 1698). The building itself dates to 1899, and was designed by Edgar V. Seeler, the architect of several noted buildings in and around Philadelphia, among them the Curtis Center (still home to the stunningly beautiful Louis Comfort Tiffany mosaic "The Dream Garden"). The church sanctuary is an impressive blending of the Romanesque and Byzantine styles, and is worth a visit of its own when in town. Our office is accessed via the side entrance on Sansom Street.

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