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Christ on the Cross

Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

ca. 1850

1985.33

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

PICTURING NATURAL HISTORY: FLORA AND FAUNA IN DRAWINGS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND PRINTED BOOKS OPENS FEBRUARY 12
FINAL EXHIBITION BEFORE MORGAN CLOSURE

Press release date

Tuesday, December 24, 2002

The wonder and beauty of nature, richly documented for over nearly a thousand years, is the subject of Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books, the Morgan Library's first exhibition devoted to natural history illustration. Picturing Natural History is the last major exhibition before the Morgan closes to the public for approximately two years to undergo an extensive expansion project.

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Mounting Ancient Western Asian Seals and Tablets

Morgan collected Western Asian seals and cuneiform tablets.

Iconologia / Nella quale si descrivono diverse imagini di virtù, vitÿ, affetti, passioni humane, arti, discipline, humori, elementi, corpi celesti, provincie d'Italia, fiumi, tutte le parti del mondo, ed altre infinite materie. Opera utile ad oratori, predicatori, poeti, pittori, scultori, disegnatori, e ad ogni studioso, per inventar concetti, emblemi, ed imprese, per divisare qualfivoglia apparato nutriale, funerale, trionfale, per rappresentar poemi drammatici, e per figurare so'suoi propij simboli ciò, che puo cadere in pensiero humano. Ampliata ultimamente dallo stesso autore di CC. imagini, e arricchita di molti discorsi pieni di varia eruditione, con nuovi intagli, e con indici copiosi nel fine.

Ripa, Cesare, 1560-1645.

Siena, Appresso gli heredi di Matteo Florimi, 1613.

PML 56023

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Book

Department

Printed Books

An Biobla Naomhtha iona bhfuil Leabhair na Seintiomna ar na ttarruing as an Eabhra go Goidheilg tré chúram agus dhúthrachd an Doctuir Villiam Bedel ... [assisted by Murtagh King and Dennis Sheridan] agus na TiomnaNuaidhe ar na ttabhairt go firinneach as Greigis go Goidheilg, re Villiam o Dombnuill [assisted by Murtagh King]. Noch ata anois chum maitheas coitcheann na nGaoidheail Albanach, áthruighte as an litir Eireandha chum na mion-litre shoi-leighidb Romhanta; Maille re Suim argus brigh na Ccaibidleach ós a ccionn ... Re claraibh fós, ag miniughadh na mFocal budh deacraigh ré na ttuigsin, le R.K. (irke). M.A.

Lunnduin : R. Ebheringtham, 1690.

PML 893

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Book

Department

Printed Books

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The Red Book of Ferney Hall

Humphry Repton prepared this Red Book for Samuel Phipps of Lincoln's Inn, a prosperous attorney, who had purchased the Ferney Hall estate around 1787.