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The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection

June 1 through September 16, 2018

Handwriting works magic: it transports us back to defining moments in history, creativity, and everyday life and connects us intimately with the people who marked the page.

Caravaggio's "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" in Focus

January 16 through April 19, 2026

This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome of the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit, an important early work by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610).

The manual of youth : containing I. Sixty fables, French and English, ornamented with one hundred and twenty cuts, representing the subjects of the fables in the French part, and furnishing, in the English part, a series of elementary lessons, in the several styles of drawing, II. Remarks on rhetoric, with various examples on the different styles, figures, and tropes, III. A large collection of extracts, in prose and verse, selected from the most approved authors, English and French / by J. Ouiseau.

Oiseau, J.

London : Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1807 ([London] : S. Gosnell, printer)

PML 84546

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Book

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Printed Books

A natural history of uncommon birds, : and of some other rare and undescribed animals, quadrupedes, reptiles, fishes, insects, &c. exhibited in two hundred and ten copper-plates ... To which is added, A brief and general idea of drawing and painting in water-colours; with instructions for etching on copper with aqua fortis: likewise some thoughts on the passage of birds; and additions to many of the subjects described in this work. In four parts. / By George Edwards ...

Edwards, George, 1694-1773.

London : Printed for the author, at the College of Physicians ..., M.DCC.XLIII-M.DCC.LI, [1743-1751]

PML 62555

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Book

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Printed Books

Design for a Casket with Figure of Prudence at Top

Circle of Jacobus Strada

1507-1588

1964.3

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Fortuna or Vanitas, Standing on a Wheel, and a Seated Female Figure (Sibyl?). Verso: Two Seated Female Figures, One Holding a Basket (Tuccia?)

Attributed to Biagio Pupini

active 1511-1551

1992.148

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

America : a prophecy.

Blake, William, 1757-1827.

Lambeth [London] : Printed by William Blake, 1793 [i.e. 1795].

PML 63938

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Book

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Printed Books

PIERRE MATISSE AND HIS ARTISTS OPENS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY ON FEBRUARY 14

Press release date

Wednesday, December 12, 2001

Examining the role of Pierre Matisse in promoting the work of twentieth-century artists in North America, the Morgan Library presents Pierre Matisse and His Artists from February 14 through May 19, 2002. This is the Morgan's first exhibition devoted exclusively to twentieth-century painting and sculpture.

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