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Kristel Smentek: Pierre-Jean Mariette: The Collector as Historian

Kristel Smentek, Associate Professor of Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, delivers her lecture Pierre-Jean Mariette: The Collector as Historian on Friday, March 4, 2016.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF DRAWINGS BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH IN NEW EXHIBITION

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Monday, April 9, 2018

Renowned for his portraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the eighteenth-century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is best known as a painter.

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Nuclear Warhead #1

Robert Arneson

1930-1992

1983

2022.359

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Drawing

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Modern and Contemporary Drawings

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Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Keswick, to Robert Southey, circa 1802 August 12 : autograph manuscript signed.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Keswick, England, circa 1802 August 12.

MA 1848.47

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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H[a]ec sunt opera Boetii.

Boethius, -524.

PML 18885

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books
The Ivdgement of Martin Bucer concerning divorce : written to Edward the sixt, in his second book of the Kingdom of Christ, and now Englisht : wherein a late book restoring the doctrine and discipline of divorce is heer confirm'd and justify'd by the authoritie of Martin Bucer to the Parlament of England.

Bucer, Martin, 1491-1551.

London : Printed by Matthew Simmons, 1644.

PML 16437

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Book

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Printed Books

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The American geography; : or, A view of the present situation of the United States of America... Illustrated with two sheet maps... To which is added, a concise abridgment of the geography of the British, Spanish, French and Dutch dominions in America, and the West Indies--of Europe, Asia and Africa. / By Jedidiah Morse.

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.

Elizabethtown : Printed by Shepard Kollock, for the author, 1789.

PML 3608

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Book

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Printed Books

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The right plesaunt and goodly historie of the foure sonnes of Aimon, the which for the excellent endytyng of it, and for the notable prowes and great vertues that were in them: is no les pleasaunt to rede, then worthy to be knowen of all estates bothe hyghe and lowe.

[[London] : Emprinted in the yere of our Lorde. M.CCCCC.liiii. the vi. daye of Maye, by Wylliam Copland, for Thomas Petet, [6 May 1554]]

PML 21998

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Book

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Printed Books

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Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction / by the Hon. Walter Rothschild.

Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron, 1868-1937.

London : Hutchinson & Co., 1907.

PML 18331

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Book

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Printed Books

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The present state of Virginia : giving a particular and short account of the Indian, English, and Negroe inhabitants of that colony. Shewing their religion, manners, government, trade, way of living, &c., with a description of the country. From whence is inferred a short view of Maryland and North Carolina ... By Hugh Jones ...

Jones, Hugh, 1669-1760.

London : Printed for J. Clarke, 1724.

PML 3735

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Book

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Printed Books

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