YGS Lecture: The Nuttgens Award Winners
Sat 13 Feb
|York Medical Society
Join us on Saturday 13 February to hear two talks given by the winners of the Nuttgens Award, Michael Adam Smith and William Plant.
Time & Location
13 Feb 2027, 14:30 – 16:00
York Medical Society, 23 Stonegate, York YO1 8AW, UK
About the Event
Join us on Saturday 13 February 2027 when we will be joined by the two winners of the Nuttgens Award, Michael Adam Smith and William Plant, who will be discussing their research projects.
Please see more information below. Doors open at 2pm, lecture starts at 2.30pm. Free for students and YGS members; an optional donation of £5 for non-members.
Title: John Flaxman's Indian Monuments
About: In the first decades of the nineteenth century John Flaxman produced nine sculptures to be sent to India, ranging from funerary monuments for East India Company functionaries to a statue of the Raja of Tanjore. Drawing upon material in British and Indian archives, I will examine Flaxman's logistical and artistic approach to transcontinental commissions with a focus on a pair of funerary monuments—to Major-General Sir Barry Close in Chennai and Revd Christian Friedrich Schwarz in Thanjavur.
Bio: Michael Adam Smith is an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral…
