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2-story building with ogival arch entrance

Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

1832

III, 124a.11

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Two seated men

Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

1832

III, 124a.24

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Five figures and detail of a leg

Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

1832

III, 124a.3

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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The Polite academy : or School of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses ; containing, I. The beauty and advantages of a genteel behaviour and agreeable complaisance. II. Some rules and observations for moral behaviour in young ladies, very necessary to be inculcated while at the boarding-school, in order to be practised when they come from it. III. Directions for good manners, agreeable behaviour, and polite address, on the most common occasions in life. IV. Some directions for an easy genteel carriage in walking, saluting, making a courtesy, bow, and dancing the minuet. V. Some observations on the real use and advantages of dancing by Mr. Locke and the Chevalier De Ramsay; with a few very necessary instructions, by an eminent master ; illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved.

London : Printed for R. Baldwin, in Paster-noster-Row ; and B.C. Collins, in Salisbury, 1786.

PML 88261

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Book

Department

Printed Books

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A Rustic Fair with Dancers

Italian School

18th century

ca. 1759

1982.75:339

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

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Tavola delle rubriche del primo libro della prima deca di Tito Liuio Padouano historico.

Livy.

PML 25148-50

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Fragments from the Book of Investiture of St. Gabriel Archangel.

Created

Egypt.

Accession number

MS M.668.1

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
JEAN POYER: ARTIST TO THE COURT OF RENAISSANCE FRANCE OPENS JANUARY 25

Press release date

Thursday, November 30, 2000

The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of a manuscript illuminator, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France opens at the Morgan Library on January 25, 2001, and remains on view through May 6. Taking a novel approach to the traditional manuscript exhibition, Jean Poyer examines not only the artist's work but also his artistic roots, his contemporaries, and his competitors.

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Preparing the Morgan's Treasures for Exhibition

The conservators evaluate the condition of each object and undertake any repairs or treatment needed to render the object safe to display.
Belle da Costa Greene's Letters to Bernard Berenson

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), the Morgan’s pathbreaking inaugural director, attracted considerable attention both in the press and from her many admirers.