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.

Suitable for
18+
16-17
14-15

Admission
£8/£5.50 for Friends and Concessions

Website
www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am32238?id=EVENT567870