Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and Renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers. These selections, which rotate three times a year, provide an opportunity for Morgan curators to spotlight individual items, to consider their historical and aesthetic contexts, and to tell the stories behind these artifacts and their creators.
Exhibition location:
J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library
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Collections Spotlight is funded in perpetuity in memory of Christopher Lightfoot Walker.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
Zur Farbenlehre (On the theory of colors) Tübingen: In der J. G. Cotta’schen buchhandlung, 1810
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection, gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977; Heineman 664 (Atlas)