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MORGAN LIBRARY RECEIVES $10 MILLION FROM EUGENE V. AND CLARE E. THAW CHARITABLE TRUST FOR NEW CONSERVATION CENTER AND ENDOWMENT

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Thursday, May 27, 1999

The Morgan Library, which is now celebrating its seventy-fifth year as a public institution, announced today a $10-million gift from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust to support conservation activities at the institution.

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By permission of the right worshipful the mayor. Minor Theatre, Humber-Street, Hull. the same will open for a short season on Wednesday, the 19th of September, 1827, and will continue open, with a succession of novelties, every evening until further notice. This advertisement announces the arrival of Mr. Gyngell, Sen. and company, from the Royal Vauxall Gardens, London ... one of the main and most astonishing features of the evening's amusements, will be the daring and paralysing ascension and descension of Miss L. Gyngell on the fiery rope ... Eidopolyphoscopia, or, Dance of the witches ... The eidorama, or, Les ombres chinoises ... Musical glasses ... Mr. Schmidt, will introduce a great variety of mechanical, philosophical, and electrical experiments ... Tickets to be had and places taken Mr. Topping's, 51 Lowgate.

Hull : Thomas Topping, printer, [1827]

PML 146639, p. 464 (facing)

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Portrait of a Man Seated in a Chair

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

1796-1875

1844

2010.113

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

BABAR JOINS MORGAN LIBRARY'S COLLECTION OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

Press release date

Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Morgan Library announced today that it has acquired the manuscript and illustrations of The Story of Babar the Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (1899–1937) and the illustrations for Babar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur by Laurent de Brunhoff (b. 1925).

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Rocky Landscape with two Figures on Horseback

Gustave Doré

1832-1883

2009.118

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Two albums of photographs of the work of Edouard Manet [photograph].

Godet, Anatole, 1839-1887, photographer.

MA 3950.1:4-5

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Still Life with Pears and Apples, Covered Blue Jar, and a Bottle of Wine. Verso: Sketch of Mont Sainte-Victoire

Paul Cézanne

1839-1906

1902-1906

2002.61

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Still Life with Pears and Apples, Covered Blue Jar, and a Bottle of Wine

Chamber of a Minister of the Ottoman Empire

Jean Michel Moreau

1741-1814

2001.2

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Apollo on His Chariot Smiting the Python

Attributed to Jean Bérain

1640-1711

2003.11

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks

September 24, 2010, through January 23, 2011

The exhibition features some twenty exceptional drawings by Degas, along with two of his sketchbooks, demonstrating the iconic artist's characteristic daring and inventiveness.