December 4 2001, Tuesday, 6.30pm

AUTHOR AND TELEVISION PRESENTER MEADES LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE, QUEEN VICTORIA, POX AND LAUDANUM

We are grateful for the Press Officer who sent us an e-mail last September all about this lecture, that is part of The National Art Collections Fund's "Madness and Badness - Visions of Victorian Values" series that ends today. It stated that while, 'many High Victorian buildings were commissioned as manifestations of piety, mercantile potency, imperial confidence and philanthropic vanity, the greatest of them are monuments to architectural irrationality – brick refutations of the Enlightenment.
 

Jonathan Meades will expand on a preoccupying theme of his recent BBC film, "Victoria Died in 1901 and is Still Alive Today".' Admission (non-refundable): £7, £5 students Please e-mail Philippa Jarvis (Ticketing Officer) on... (see website) for more information, if required. Location: Ciné Lumière, Institut Français, 17 Queensbury Place, London, SW7. Nearest tube station: South Kensington (Piccadilly, Circle and District lines).
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