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Beethoven 250: Autograph Music Manuscripts by Ludwig van Beethoven

January 22 through September 27, 2020

The Morgan’s collection of autograph manuscripts by Beethoven will be on display as part of Beethoven 250.

Carion Wind Quintet

Rush Hour Concert, Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Celebrated artists perform chamber music from Baroque to contemporary in the intimate and sumptuous surroundings of J. Pierpont Morgan's Library.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF DRAWINGS BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH IN NEW EXHIBITION

Press release date

Monday, April 9, 2018

Renowned for his portraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the eighteenth-century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is best known as a painter.

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Edwin and Henry, or, The week's holidays : containing original, moral, and instructive tales, for the improvement of youth : to which is added, a hymn for the morning and evening of every day in the week / by Robert Huish ; neatly embellished with all the original engravings on wood, by Mr. Branston, from the designs of Mr. Brook.

Huish, Robert, 1777-1850.

London : Printed in stereotypes, for D. Mackay, [1818] ([London?] : Harvey, printer)

PML 82969

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Book

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Printed Books

Robin Hood's progress to Nottingham, where he met with fifteen forresters all on a row, and he desired of them some news to know; and with cross-grain'd words they did him thwart, for which at last he made them for to smart. To the tune of, Robin Hood, &c. Licensed and entered according to order.

London : printed by and for W. O[nley]. for A. M[ilbourn]. and sold by the booksellers of Pye-corner and London bridge, [between 1693 and 1695?]

PML 3469.7

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Broadside

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Printed Books

An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling. The annals of horsemanship: containing accounts of accidental experiments and experimental accidents, both successful and unsuccessful; / communicated by various correspondents to the author, Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. [pseud.] ...; illustrated with cuts, by the most eminent artists ...

Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.

London : Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe [etc.] by W. Wilson, 1808.

PML 9451

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Book

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Printed Books

An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers, & c., with some proposals for remedying this growing evil : In which the present reigning vices are impartially exposed; and the laws that relate to the provision for the poor, and to the punishment of felons are largely and freely examined / By Henry Fielding, esq.

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

London : Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

PML 8483

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Book

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Printed Books

An enquiry into the causes of the late increase of robbers, & c., with some proposals for remedying this growing evil. : In which the present reigning vices are impartially exposed ; and the laws that relate to the provision for the poor, and to the punishment of felons are largely and freely examined. / By Henry Fielding, esq.

Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754.

London : Printed for A. Millar, 1751.

PML 16404

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Book

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Printed Books

Agreements (15) For the publication of "Reports of Cases argued and Adjusted in the Supreme Court ...," Vol. I-XII, and for "A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court ... from ... 1789" : autograph manuscript signed and manuscript signed all by Henry Wheaton and publishers : New York, 1816 June 7-1827 June 23.

Wheaton, Henry, 1785-1848.

1816 June 7-1827 June 23.

MA 995

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Written in Stone: Historic Inscriptions from the Ancient Near East, ca. 2500 B.C.–550 B.C.

April 13 through September 5, 2010

An inscribed tablet from the Middle Assyrian period of Mesopotamia records and commemorates the restoration of the temple of the goddess Ishtar in the capital city of Assur.