David Scrase, Keeper, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, will give a talk for Black History Month, entitled Which is the black King? Caspar, Balthasar, or Melchior?, on Saturday, 21 October, at 10.30 a.m. Admission is free, and no booking is required.
Catharine Roehrig, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, will give a lecture entitled From Queen to Pharaoh: aspects of Hatshepsut's reign, at 2 p.m. in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, on 28 October. Admission is free, but booking is essential. For tickets, contact Anna Lloyd-Griffiths (The Glanville Lecture), The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RB (e-mail akl32@cam.ac.uk).
Art in Context talks will take place on Wednesdays from 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m. Admission is free, and no booking is required.
| 25 October | The coffins of Nespawershefyt, by Helen Strudwick, Outreach Officer, Ancient Egypt. |
| 1 November | Contrasting images of Una and the Lion from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, by Julia Poole, Keeper of Applied Arts. |
| 8 November | Pissarro: autumn in Cambridge, springtime in Copenhagen, by Jane Munro, Senior Assistant Keeper, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. |
| 15 November | Murillo, the vision of Fray Lauterio, by David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. |
| 22 November | Rembrandt's 'Three Trees': an elegy for Saskia?, by Craig Hartley, Senior Assistant Keeper, Prints. |
| 29 November | Pharaohs and enemies of Egypt, by Sally-Ann Ashton, Senior Assistant Keeper, Antiquities. |
Lunchtime Talks, linked to the exhibition Literary circles: Artist, author, word, and image in Britain 1800-1920, will take place from 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m. Admission is free, and no booking is required.
| 14 November | Going round in circles: a guided tour of the exhibition, by Jane Munro, Senior Assistant Keeper, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints. |
| 16 November | Rhyming pictures: Victorian children's book illustration, by Grace Brockington, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of English. |
| 17 November | William Morris and the book beautiful, by Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| 18 November | Moxon's Tennyson and Victorian illustration, by Linda Goddard, Lecturer in History of Art. |
| Until 30 December | Figures on fabric and Literary circles: Artist, author, word, and image in Britain 1800-1920 |
| Until 7 January 2007 | Chasing happiness: Maurice Maeterlinck, the blue bird, and England |
| 14 November - 11 March 2007 | Rembrandt and Saskia |
Concerts will take place in Gallery 3 at 1.15 p.m. Admission is free.
| 22 October | Brahms, Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, and Beethoven, A minor Sonata (op. 23) for Violin and Piano. |
| 29 October | Schumann, Frauenliebe und Leben, Debussy, Ariettes Oubliees, and Walton, Three Sitwell Songs. |
| 5 November | Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Villa-Lobos, and Piazzolla. |
| 12 November | Beethoven, Chopin, and Scriabin. |
| 19 November | Ellin (new work), Britten, Elgar, Bush, and Dring. |
| 26 November | Handel, Trio Sonata, Dvorak, Quartet in D, Smyth, 2 French Folk Songs, and Mozart, Quartet in G. |
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, is open Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sundays, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For further information, telephone 01223 332900, or see the website at http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/.