Thoreau’s Journal: A Life of Listening
Read and listen to Thoreau’s personal reflections on nature, friendship, slavery, and society.
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Read and listen to Thoreau’s personal reflections on nature, friendship, slavery, and society.
Listen to a selection of poems by Emily Dickinson, as read by contemporary poet Lee Ann Brown.
This presentation provides an overview of the exhibition Word and Image: Martin Luther's Reformation, highlighting a few pieces and the overall themes.
Brontë’s personal letters, a selection of which is presented here, reveal the doubt, pain, hope, and confidence she voiced before emerging as one of the world’s most successful novelists.
Take a virtual walk through Rome, stopping along the way at sites that inspired Byron and Shelley, Dickens and Hawthorne, Turner and Corot.
Browse images from the prefatory cycle of one of the earliest illustrated biographies of St. Edmund.
Browse the entire manuscript of the Lindau Gospels, one of the great masterpieces from the Morgan's collection.
Art dealer, collector, art historian, and connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774) assembled one of the finest and most renowned drawings collections. The selection shown here, drawn primarily from the Morgan’s holdings, speaks to Mariette’s discerning taste and erudition.
In this online exhibition, we invite you to learn about Alice, Lewis Carroll, and the history of the original manuscript; trace the development of the iconic illustrations; page through a selection of manuscripts and letters; watch early film adaptations, and listen to Alice-inspired music.
Browse The Rose Haggadah, illuminated by contemporary artist Barbara Wolff, using the techniques of medieval manuscript illumination.
View images with descriptions from the Morgan's Picture Bible illustrated in thirteenth-century France.
The Prayer Book of Claude de France is a tiny, jewel-like manuscript that was made for Claude (1499–1524) around 1517, the year she was crowned queen of France.