{"id":7566,"date":"2015-05-04T16:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:09:27","slug":"forum-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/forum-waterloo\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement Forum | Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7570\" style=\"width: 888px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Waterloo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7570 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/05\/Waterloo.jpeg\" alt=\"Waterloo\" width=\"888\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Maclise: Wellington and Blucher meeting after the Battle of Waterloo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Saturday, May 23 at 12:30 p.m. in this, the bicentennial year of Waterloo, curator\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Peter<\/span> Harrington will explore the numerous artistic representations of this iconic battle in his talk, &#8220;<strong>Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle<\/strong>.&#8221;\u00a0The talk will take place in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library. It is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-3ns2RT0kzY?list=PL2PwShbFBf4DlFPK3GfUB7rY8xrsSPR52\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From leading Royal Academicians including the great &#8220;Mr. Turner&#8221; to amateur artists and veterans, the battle was mythologized to create an idealized image of the ultimate victory over Napoleon. This illustrated talk will include popular prints from the Military Collection and paintings from the European collections. Following the talk, participants will be able to visit the Waterloo bicentennial exhibition on the first floor of the John Hay Library.<\/p>\n<p><i>Share your Commencement &amp; Reunion Weekend with #Brown2015\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"il\">Peter<\/span> Harrington<\/strong> is Curator of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection in the John Hay Library, where he has worked for over 30 years. A native of Manchester, England, he did his undergraduate studies in London before writing his graduate thesis in Scottish prehistoric archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He came to Brown in 1981 to pursue further graduate work; he also holds a library degree from Simmons College and a museum degree from Brown. His current research focuses on artists and images of war and he teaches a distance learning course on the subject. He is the author of several books including <em>British Artists and War: The face of battle in paintings and prints 1700-1914<\/em>, <em>Queen Victoria&#8217;s Army in Color: The Military Paintings of Orlando Norie<\/em>; <em>The Castles of Henry VIII<\/em>, and <em>English Civil War Archaeology<\/em>. His latest book, <em>William Simpson\u2019s Afghanistan: Travels of a Special Artist and Antiquarian during the Second Afghan War, 1878-1879<\/em>, will be published in this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Saturday, May 23, 2015<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 12:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Lownes Room, John Hay\u00a0Library, 20 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 23 at 12:30 p.m. in this, the bicentennial year of Waterloo, curator\u00a0Peter Harrington will explore the numerous artistic representations of this iconic battle in his talk, &#8220;Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle.&#8221;\u00a0The talk will take place in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library. It is free and open to <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/forum-waterloo\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Commencement Forum | Waterloo 1815: The Image and the Battle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}