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To visit the Morgan is to encounter a remarkable range of works that attest to the highest achievement of human creativity—from drawing and literature to music, photography, rare books, and the arts of the ancient and medieval worlds.

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MORGAN LIBRARY RECEIVES MAJOR REMBRANDT LANDSCAPE DRAWING AS GIFT

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Tuesday, February 1, 2000

The Morgan Library announced today that it has acquired, through the generosity of an anonymous friend, an extraordinary pen-and-ink landscape drawing by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669). Dating to around 1650, it depicts a panoramic view of a bulwark and a group of houses seen from the walls of the city of Amsterdam.

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Pedro de Campaña

1503-1580

2007.76

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Portrait of a Young Woman

Jacob Jordaens

1593-1678

ca. 1635-1640

1977.42

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Poem in cipher : autograph manuscript.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.

Place not identified, circa 1868.

MA 6387.1

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Hoc in uolumine haec continentur, Pomponii Epistola ad Augustinu[m] Maphæu[m]. C. Crispii Sallustii Bellum Catilinarium cu[m] co[m]mento Laurentii Vallensis. Portii Latro[n]is Declamatio co[n]tra L. Catilina[m]. C. Crispi Sallustii Bellum Iugurthinum. C. Crispi Sallustii uariæ oratio[n]es ex libris eiusdem historiarum excerptæ. C. Crispi Salustii uita. Romæ per Pomponium emendata: ac Venetiis diligentissime impressa.

Sallust, 86-34 B.C.

PML 20704

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Treasures from the Vault

September 9, 2014 through January 11, 2015

Treasures from the Vault, an ongoing exhibition series, features works drawn from these diverse collections in the sumptuous setting of Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library.

The Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett: 300 Years of Keeping in the Present

Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden with Stephanie Buck, Director of the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett, who explores the history of the Dresden collection and share insights into a number of exceptional drawings on view in the exhibition.

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PRIVATE TREASURES: FOUR CENTURIES OF EUROPEAN MASTER DRAWINGS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

The public will have the rare opportunity to view an extraordinary selection of over ninety master drawings when the exhibition Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings is on view at The Morgan Library & Museum, January 18 through April 8, 2007.

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FEDERICO DA MONTEFELTRO AND HIS LIBRARY AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Friday, April 20, 2007

One of the great libraries of Renaissance Italy and the private study of Federico da Montefeltro (1422–1482), Duke of Urbino, is the subject of a fascinating exhibition on view at The Morgan Library & Museum.

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