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Te arii vahine, Verso: Head of a Girl and a Study of Feet

Paul Gauguin

1848-1903

1896-1897

2006.55

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Drawings and Prints

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A Rustic Fair with Dancers

Italian School

18th century

ca. 1759

1982.75:339

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Sir Francis Drake revived. Who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times, to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts. Being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies. Viz. His dangerons [!] adventuring for gold and silver with the gaining thereof. And the surprizing of Nombre de Dios by himselfe and two and fifty men. His encompassing the world. His voyage made with Christopher Carleill, Martin Frobusher, Francis Knollis, and others. Their taking the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Carthagena and Saint Augustine. His last voyage (in which he dyed) being accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, with others. His manner of buriall. Collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake; Master Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers; and the notes of divers other gentlemen (who went in the said voyages) carefully compared together.

Printed at London For Nicholas Bourne, 1653.

PML 17047

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A treatise and discovrse of the lawes of the forrest : wherin is declared not onely those lawes, as they are now in force, but also the originall and beginning of forrestes: and what a forrest is in his owne proper nature, and wherein the same doth differ from a chase, a park, or a warren, with all such thinges as are incident or belonging thereunto, with their seuerall proper tearmes of art, as more at large doth appeare in the table in the beginning of this booke : also a treatise on the purallee, declaring what purallee is, how the same first began, what a purallee man may doe, how he may hunt and vse his owne purallee, how far he may pursue and follow after his chase, together with the lymits and boundes, aswell of the forrest, as the puralley / collected and gathered together, aswell out of the common lawes and statutes of this land, as also out of sundry learned auncient authors, and out of the Assises and Iters of Pickring and Lancaster, by Iohn Manwood.

Manwood, John, -1610.

London : Printed by Thomas Wight and Bonham Norton, 1598.

PML 38678

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY AT THE CONNOISSEUR'S ANTIQUES FAIR

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Thursday, August 26, 2004

The Morgan Library is the beneficiary of the opening night preview of the Connoisseur's Antiques Fair, the show of the Art and Antique Dealers of America, Inc. A benefit gala to support the programs of the Morgan Library as a museum and research center is scheduled to be held on the fair's opening night, November 18.

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Virginia Woolf’s “Letter to a Young Poet”

In the fall of 1931, Virginia Woolf used these pages to work on a draft of what would eventually become the essay "A Letter to a Young Poet."

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Letter from Maria Knox, Nasirabad, India, to Mrs. Harriet Butler, 1820 December 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.

Nasirabad, India, 1820 December 11.

MA 14286.15

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Beggar Holding a Broken Jug

Guercino

1591-1666

1979.7

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Acrobats

Prince Hoare

1755-1834

ca. 1776-79.

2018.34

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Drawings and Prints

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MORGAN BEGINS MAJOR EXPANSION PROJECT
LIBRARY REMAINS OPEN THROUGH MAY 4, 2003

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Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Under the direction of the Board of Trustees of the Morgan Library, the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano has developed a comprehensive plan to expand and better integrate the campus of the Morgan.

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