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Humphry Repton's Red Books

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO LAUNCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF DRAWING FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE MODERN PERIOD

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Friday, June 24, 2011

The Morgan Library & Museum, announced today the creation of a new institute to support research in the drawings field and to nurture new generations of scholars and curators.

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Caravaggio's "Boy with a Basket of Fruit" in Focus

January 16 through April 19, 2026

This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome of the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit, an important early work by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610).

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The bookbinder's manual : containing a full description of leather and vellum binding; also, directions for gilding of paper & book-edges: and numerous valuable recipes for sprinkling, colouring, and marbling: together with a scale of bookbinders' charges; a list of all the book and vellum binders in London, &c. &c.

London : Cowie and Strange, 1829.

PML 128535.2

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Ode for Music, : as performed at the theatre in Oxford, on the second of July, 1751. Being the anniversary appointed by the late Lord Crew, Bishop of Durham, for the commemoration of benefactors to the University. / By Tho. Warton ... ; Set to music by Dr. Hayes ...

Warton, Thomas, 1728-1790.

Oxford, : Printed for R. Clements and J. Barrett; W. Thurlbourne in Cambridge; and R. Dodsley ..., London, [1751]

PML 78650

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The great blessing of good rulers, depends upon God's giving His judgments & His righteousness to them : a sermon preached before His Excellency William Shirley...and the House of Representatives of the province of the Massachusetts bay...being the day for the electing His Majesty's council for said province...

Appleton, Nathaniel, 1693-1784.

Boston : Draper, 1742.

PML 3529

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An apology for the true Christian divinity : being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers / Written in Latin and English by Robert Barclay, and since translated into High Dutch, Low Dutch, French, and Spanish, for the information of strangers.

Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.

Birmingham : Printed by J. Baskerville, 1765.

PML 4355

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The practice of Christianitie, Or An epitomie of seven treatises, / penned and published in the yeare 1633 [1603] by R.R. Contracted long since for private use and now published for the benefite of such, as either want leisure to reade or meanes to provide larger volumes.

Rogers, Richard, 1550?-1618.

London : Printed by B. Alsop for T. Man, 1623.

PML 152062

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An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting : with proper rules for the exercise of that pleasant art. Humbly addressed, in the first part, to the master, husband, &c. In the second part, to the wife, friend, &c. With some general instructions for plaguing all your acquaintance.

Collier, Jane, 1709?-1754.

Dublin : Printed for John Smith, Peter Wilson, John Exshaw, and Matthew Williamson, M,DCC,LIII. [1753]

PML 128034

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A compendium of the religious doctrines, religious and moral precepts, historical and descriptive beauties of the Bible ; with a separate moral selection from the Apocrypha; being a transcript of the received text: Intended for the use of families, but more particularly as a reading book for schools. / By Rodolphus Dickinson.

Greenfield, Mass. : Published at the compiler's office, 1814 (Horace Graves, printer)

PML 82270

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