{"id":2278,"date":"2016-03-17T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2016-03-17T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:22:24","slug":"at-the-wadsworth-gothic-to-goth-romantic-era-fashion-and-its-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2016\/03\/17\/at-the-wadsworth-gothic-to-goth-romantic-era-fashion-and-its-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Wadsworth \u2026 Gothic to Goth: Romantic Era Fashion and Its Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2279\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2279\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"gothic exhib\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Watkinson loans material to round out the story!<\/p>\n<p>This captivating exhibition displays costume, the fine and decorative arts, and literature to explain the context of Romantic fashion up to contemporary Goth. Watkinson loaned books by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Jules Verne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.G. Wells and Hartford\u2019s own Lydia Sigourney. Sigourney\u2019s <em>Letters to Young Ladies <\/em>is one of the stops on the audio tour, and is described by Watkinson associate curator Sally Dickinson. <a href=\"http:\/\/tap.thewadsworth.org\/tap-web-app\/#archive\/tour-655\/controller\/StopListView\">http:\/\/tap.thewadsworth.org\/tap-web-app\/#archive\/tour-655\/controller\/StopListView<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2280\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"gothic exhib sigourney 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney-2-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mrs. Sigourney wrote hundreds of poems, books, and articles that captured the sentiments of the day, especially for women. Guest curator Lynne Bassett gave a special tour the day of the opening and was most appreciative of our collaboration. Our relationship with the Atheneum continues to grow!<\/p>\n<p><em>Gothic to Goth<\/em> runs March 5 through July 10, 2016 at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2281\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"gothic exhib sigourney\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2016\/03\/gothic-exhib-sigourney.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Posted by Sally Dickinson, Associate Curator &amp; Preservation Librarian]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watkinson loans material to round out the story! This captivating exhibition displays costume, the fine and decorative arts, and literature to explain the context of Romantic fashion up to contemporary Goth. Watkinson loaned books by Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Jules Verne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, H.G. Wells and Hartford\u2019s own Lydia Sigourney. Sigourney\u2019s Letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,21,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}