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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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Nouveaux contes des fées / par Madame D***, auteur des Memoires & Voyage d'Espagne.

Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705.

A Amsterdam : Chez Estienne Roger, marchand libraire, 1725.

PML 84636-37

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Triumph

Edmund Joseph Sullivan

1869-1933

1914

1986.1757

Classification

Drawing

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

A booke of sundry draughtes : principaly serving for glasiers: and not impertinent for plasterers, and gardiners: besides sundry other professions. Whereunto is annexed, The manner how to anniel in glas: and also the true forme of the fornace, and the secretes thereof. London, printed in Shoolane, at the signe of the Faulcon, by Walter Dight, 1615-[1616].

Gedde, Walter, active 1615-1616.

London : Leadenhall Press, ltd. [etc.] ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896.

PML 53081

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Chrestomathia : being a collection of papers, explanatory of the design of an institution, proposed to be set on foot, under the name of the Chrestomathic day school, or Chrestomathic school, for the extension of the new system of instruction to the higher branches of learning, for the use of the middling and higher ranks in life / by Jeremy Bentham, esq.

Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.

London : Printed for Messrs. Payne and Foss, and R. Hunter, by J. M'Creery, 1815.

PML 78765

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Lessons in elocution, or, A selection of pieces in prose and verse : for the improvement of youth in reading and speaking : to which are prefixed, elements of gesture, illustrated by four plates, and rules for expressing with propriety the various passions, &c. of the mind. Also, an appendix, containing concise lessons on a new plan / by William Scott.

Scott, William, 1750-1804.

Baltimore [Md.] : Printed and sold by William Warner, 1814.

PML 87848

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The drawing school for little masters and misses : containing the most easy and concise rules for learning to draw, without the assistance of a teacher. Embellished with a great variety of figures curiously designed : To which are added, the whole art of kite making; and the author's new discoveries in the preparation of water colours / By Master Michael Angelo.

Angelo, Michael, active 18th century.

London : Printed for T. Carnan ..., 1773.

PML 86592

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Book

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Printed Books

Chrestomathia : being a collection of papers, explanatory of the design of an institution, proposed to be set on foot, under the name of the Chrestomathic Day School, or Chrestomathic School, for the extension of the new system of instruction to the higher branches of learning, for the use of the middling and higher ranks in life / by Jeremy Bentham.

Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832.

London : Printed for Payne and Foss, and R. Hunter, by J. M'Creery, 1816-1817.

PML 136463

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Book

Department

Printed Books