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Epistles domestic, confidential, and official, from General Washington. Written about the commencement of the American contest, when he entered on the command of the army of the United States. With an interesting series of his letters, particularly to the British admirals, Arbuthnot and Digby; to General Sir Henry Clinton, Lord Cornwallis, Sir Guy Carleton, Marquis de la Fayette, &c. &c. To Benjamin Harrison, esq., speaker of the House of delegates in Virginia, to Admiral the Count de Grasse, General Sullivan, respecting an attack of New-York; including many applications and addresses presented to him, with his answers: orders and instructions, on important occasions, to his aids de camp, &c. &c. &c. None of which have been printed in the two volumes published a few months ago.

New York, Printed by G. Robinson and J. Bull, 1796.

PML 3678

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Antiquités mexicaines : Relation des trois expéditions du capitaine Dupaix, ordonnées en 1805, 1806, et 1807, pour la recherche des antiquités du pays, notamment celles de Mitla et de Palenque / accompagnée des dessins de Castañeda et d'une carte du pays exploré ; suivie d'un parallèle de ces monuments avec ceux de l'Égypte, de l'Indostan, et du reste de l'ancien monde, par M. Alexandre Lenoir ; d'une dissertation sur l'origine de l'ancienne population des deux Amériques et sur les diverses antiquités de ce continent, par M. Warden ; avec un discours préliminaire par M. Charles Farcy ; et des notes explicatives, et autres documents, par MM. Baradère, de St. Priest, et plusieurs voyageurs que ont parcouru l'Amérique.

Baradère, H. (Henri).

Paris : Bureau des Antiquités mexicaines, Imprimiere de Jules Didot l'aîné, 1834.

PML 146465

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Collections Spotlight, Fall 2022 / Winter 2023

November 1, 2022 through February 12, 2023

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of building collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

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Study for "The Tenth of August 1792"

baron François-Pascal-Simon Gérard

1770-1837

2001.36

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Composition with Octave Mirbeau, Sarah Bernhardt (at bottom) and Georges Clairin (riding on his palette)

Georges Clairin

1843-1919

2022.192

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Seated Male Nude

Guercino

1591-1666

1643

1970.12

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : vbi hvmana omnia non nisisomnivm [sic] esse docet atqve obiter plvrima scitv sane qvam digna commemorat.

Colonna, Francesco, -1527.

PML 373

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Book of hours (MS M.1175).

Created

Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1525-1530

Accession number

MS M.1175

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Lib[er] cronicarum : cu[m] figuris et ymagibus ab inicio mu[n]di.

Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514.

PML 180

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Book of hours (S.14).

Created

Tyrol, Austria, or southern Germany, ca. 1500.

Accession number

MS S.14

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts