s.e. gordon-salway

Art/garden historian. I write, lecture and consult on iconography, Classical reception, sculpture, country houses, historic gardens and designed landscapes.

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

Towering Bronze Laocoön Sells for $18.1 Million at Sotheby’s, Demolishing Estimate https://t.co/QY18oVhZyH

[Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) @SAH1365]

Early registration is now open for SAH's 6th annual Virtual Conference! This 3-day online event offers paper sessions and roundtables showcasing research in architectural history by scholars around the world.

View the preliminary program: https://t.co/TDbfPdHPKn

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

CFP: ‘Sculptural Values: Carving, Modelling, Making’, Early Career Research Symposium, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 30 September 2026.  Deadline for submitting proposals for individual 15-minute papers or a full panel: 3 August 2026, 1700. 
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[Folly Fellowship @FollyFellowship]

Claremont Belvedere, a doodle by Sir John Vanbrugh. #Claremont #Surrey #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

CFP: The Garden’s Trust New Research Symposium, (online) 14 November 2026. Abstracts due by midnight on Friday 3rd July 2026 https://t.co/ssMhe9ewmk

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

Two Gardens Trust Conservation Team Recruitment Opportunities https://t.co/JIQGsBRvup

[Stowe House @StoweHouse]

What does Sir John Vanbrugh mean to you?

As part of #Vanbrugh300, the Georgian Group is inviting visitors to share their personal response to Vanbrugh's life, architecture and legacy.

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

Call for Papers | Imagining Britain https://t.co/QafU1WaQiu

[JCP in Wiltshire @JCPinWiltshire]

Collections and House Manager @nationaltrust at Stourhead in Warminster

Click here to find out more and apply: https://t.co/jwIbBVXZ3a

#WorkinWilts #NatTrustJobs

[Ricky Craig Pound @whitegoldsword]

Must get a copy of this.

‘This critical biography places Pope's life and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688. It gives close readings of Pope's major poems, including the less commonly discussed translations of Homer. Frequent resort is made to Pope's letters, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope's literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century.
This critical biography is a posthumous publication by a Pope scholar of international reputation. It gathers the scholarship and insights of the author's earlier books and essays on Pope into a final work of new research and a lifetime's reflection on its subject, aimed at the informed general reader as well as students and professional scholars.
The book places Pope's life, friendships, and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688, the year of the poet's birth. It is sympathetic to the revisionist history which argues that Jacobitism was a serious and persistent phenomenon, and brings out more fully than previously the extent of Pope's contact with Catholic and Jacobite circles in England and abroad, giving this biography a distinctive approach and emphasis. Pope's friendships, with both Whigs and Tories, with men and women, are brought into relation to the poetry.
Professor Erskine-Hill gives sensitive close readings of all Pope's major poems, but also of the less commonly explored, notably the translations of Homer and especially of the Iliad. Frequent resort is made to Pope's letters, among the finest of the age, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope's literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century subsequent to his death’.

[The Gardens Trust @thegardenstrust]

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[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

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[Print Quarterly @PrintQuarterly]

JOB OPENING: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship in Prints and Drawings (FT, 2 years) - National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Deadline: 3rd November 2025
Annual salary of $65,000, plus research and travel expenses.
Apply here: https://t.co/I9El1GWQT3

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

The Royal Collection in Three Dimensions https://t.co/9nMS9mpwGt

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Fantastic!

[Stowe House @StoweHouse]

After 200 years, the North Hall at Stowe House has its classical busts back!
Nine newly commissioned sculptures now complete the six-year restoration.

Read about it here 👉 https://t.co/M7ymVKn3Gn

#News #Heritage
@ClivedenConserv @oldstoic

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

Vanbrugh, from Stage to Stone – Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture – University of Cambridge https://t.co/1zmqFluIqm

[The Gardens Trust @thegardenstrust]

Do you work or volunteer in a historic park or garden? Or study garden or landscape history?

We’d love your views on a new Early Careers Network and what it could offer you 👇

Please share and complete our survey by Mon 25th Aug

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5️⃣ mins to complete

[s.e. gordon-salway @gordonchls]

Call for Papers | The Future of the Antique https://t.co/xfDLioaSBp