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David Hockney: Drawing from Life

Browse drawings, photocollages, watercolors and digital images by one of the master draftsmen of our times.

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Marcel Proust and Swann's Way: 100th Anniversary

February 15 through April 28, 2013

The Morgan celebrates the 1913 publication of Swann's Way with a fascinating selection of the author's notebooks, preliminary drafts, galley-proofs, and other documents from the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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Trees: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection

November 24, 2015 through July 10, 2016

Trees is the third exhibition in a series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw.

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EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF ILLUMINATED ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HANDWRITTEN QUR’ANS TO BE SHOWN AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Morgan Library & Museum is internationally acclaimed for its collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, but it may come as a surprise that it also possesses a number of important Islamic manuscripts dating from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century.

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Colm Tóibín: Reflections on Austen

Colm Tóibín is the author of several award-winning novels and short story collections.

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A testimony, of what we believe of Christ, before he was manifest in the flesh : and of His birth and preaching, and what He saith He is Himselfe : as also of His sufferings, death, resurrection, and ascension, both as He was God and as He was Man : and also the testimony of the Apostles concerning Him ... : but all such by-names, which are not found in the Scriptures we testify against ... that in scorn calls us Quakers : also how the believers in the primitive times, and now, did and do possess and enjoy Christ Jesus ... and wherein they may see what a true Christians duty is / by George Fox.

Fox, George, 1624-1691.

[London : s.n.], Printed in the year, 1677.

PML 12998

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A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural : You to many, and Thou to one : singular one, Thou, plural many, You : wherein is shewed forth by grammar, or Scripture examples, how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural ... : also, in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural, about Thou, and You, in several languages, divided into distinct Battle-doors, or formes, or examples, English, Latine, Italian, Greek, Hebrew ... : in the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books ... / George Fox, John Stubs, Benjamin Furley.

Fox, George, 1624-1691.

London : Printed for Robert Wilson ..., 1660.

PML 12943

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Sylva, or, A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesties dominions. As it was deliver'd in the Royal Society the 15th of October, 1662 upon occasion of certain quaeries propounded to that illustrious assembly by the honourable the principal officers, and commissioners of the Navy. Terra, a philosophical essay of earth, being a lecture in course. To which is annexed Pomona, or, An appendix concerning fruit-trees in relation to cider, the making and several ways of ordering it. Published by express order of the Royal Society. Also Kalendarium hortense, or The gard'ners almanac, directing what he is to do monthly throughout the year / by John Evelyn.

Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.

London : Printed for J. Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society, 1679.

PML 53068

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James Miles : from Sadler's Wells in Islington, now keeps the Gun Musick-Booth in Smithfield-Rounds, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be shown such variety of sport and pastime the like not in all the fair. This is therefore to give notice to all gentlemen, ladies, and others, that there is come to this place the famous and ingenious Indian woman, that lifts six hundred weight with the hair of her head ... she likewise lies upon the ground with an anvil upon her breast, and suffers any man to strike with a hammer of sixteen pound weight to cut a piece of iron asunder ...

Miles, James, d. 1724.

[London : s.n., between 1699 and 1724]

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The delightful, princely, and entertaining history of the gentle-craft : containing many matters of delight very pleasant to read : shewing what famous men have been shooe-makers in old time, with their worthy deeds and generous humours, also demonstrating why it was called the gentle-craft, and how the proverb first came, A shoemaker's son is a prince born : to which is added The merry pranks of the Green King of St. Martin's, a shoemaker so called, concluding with the Shoemakers Glory, being a merry song in the praise of shoemakers, to be sung by them every year on the 25th of October, being Crispin's birth-day : adorned with pictures suitable to each story.

Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.

London : Printed for A. Wilde ... C. Hitch and L. Hawes ... S. Crowder and Comp. ... C. and R. Ware ... and H. Woodgate, and S. Brookes ..., 1760.

PML 8212.2

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