Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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London : Printed for the Company of Stationers, by M. Brown ... and sold by G. Greenhill, treasurer, at their Hall in Ludgate-Street., [1804]PML 142168.3ClassificationDepartment
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September 14, 2001, through January 13, 2002The brilliant and celebrated writer, dramatist, aesthete, wit, and self-proclaimed "lord of language" was the focus of Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts, originally organized by the British Library. Wilde's (1854–1900) rise to success as a literary and social figure was meteoric. His decline to notoriety and disgrace was equally dramatic. Twelve years after publishing his first work of fiction, in 1888, he was dead at the age of forty-six, buried in a pauper's grave on the outskirts of Paris.
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In Morgan's day, visitors to the library passed through a pair of monumental bronze doors into a rotunda replete with opulent detail: variegated marble columns, an ornately patterned floor, and fine mosaic panels that line the curved walls. The ceiling paintings, by American artist H. Siddons Mowbray (1858–1928), depict three of the major literary epochs represented in Pierpont Morgan's collections—the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.undated [1730-1731].MA 348Department
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Bernardino Galliari1707-17941756.1982.75:245ClassificationDepartment
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Legate, Robert.Printed at Wesel : November 15, 1545.PML 16098ClassificationDepartment
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Betty Parsons[ca. mid 1950s]2022.81ClassificationDepartment
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Hoppner, Richard Belgrave, Esq., 1786-1876.1819 July 9.MA 51.7Department
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