Coffeehouse & Canvas: Franklin’s and Charles Willson Peale’s Botanical Turn
Benjamin Franklin and Charles Willson Peale shared the enlightenment view about how “useful knowledge” from observation and experimentation in the natural sciences was integral to self and social “improvement.” Judy Bullington explores how enlightenment ideals of this nature percolated through London’s coffeehouse culture, which Franklin famously frequented, to be captured by Peale on canvas.
6:30pm-7:30pm
Tickets: £8/£5.50 for Friends and Concessions
36 Craven Street London WC2N 5NF
Tue 14 Mar 2017