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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.

Press

The principles of design : for the curious young gentleman and ladies, who study and practice the noble and commendable art of drawing, colouring and japanning : or a new and complete drawing book consisting of [a] variety of whole figures in divers positions, and all the several parts of the human body from head to foot, &c. in fifty copper-plates, neatly engraved : designed chiefly for young beginners, very necessary and useful for all drawing-schools, boarding-schools, &c. ; to which is prefixed An introduction to drawing ... / translated from the French of Monsieur Gerrard de Lairesse.

Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.

London : Printed for H. Serjeant, at the Black Swan, near Temple-Bar, 1777.

PML 83206

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

There's music in the air / by Geo. F. Root ; song.

Published

Boston (291 Washington St.) : Russell & Richardson, successors to G.P. Reed & Co. & N. Richardson, c1857.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

Songs of Amherst College / edited and compiled by Norman Percy Foster, James Shelley Hamilton ; Elijah Roberts Williams, managing editor.

Accession number

Fuld

Published

Amherst, Mass. : The editors, 1906.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

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.