BATH — Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. (SPI) will present an illustrated lecture by Laura Fecych Sprague, focusing on the early American furniture collection at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, at 7 p.m. today at the Winter Street Center, 880 Washington St.

Since 1989, Sprague has served as consulting curator of decorative arts at the college’s museum, where she has curated several exhibitions based on the American and European decorative arts collections. During her lecture, she will discuss examples of early 19th-century furniture made or owned in Bath, Brunswick and Topsham.

In 2007, Sprague completed a research fellowship on Maine furniture at the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum and Library, and she presented new research at Winterthur’s Furniture Forum in April 2009 and again in April 2010.

“A scholar of the material culture, the decorative arts, and household interiors in 18th and 19th-century Maine, she has published extensively, including her 1987 landmark book ‘Agreeable Situations: Society, Commerce and Art in Southern Maine, 1780-1830,’” an SPI release states.

She also has done curatorial work, research, exhibitions and publications for the Tate House Museum, Maine Historical Society, Woodlawn and the Maine State Museum.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call 443-2174.

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