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DRAWINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF POET JOHN ASHBERY ON VIEW AT THE MORGAN ALONGSIDE RARE EDITIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME

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Monday, March 30, 2026

Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery’s Collection, on view from May 1 through October 25, 2026, features selections from a 2019 gift to the Morgan Library & Museum of twenty-eight works on paper from the collection of the American poet John Ashbery (1927–2017), donated by his husband, David K. Kermani.

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Evelina, or A young lady's entrance into the world : autograph manuscript fragment, undated [before 1778].

Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.

undated [before 1778].

MA 35.1

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Capricci di varie figure

Jacques Callot

1592-1635

2006.79

Classification

Album

Department

Drawings and Prints

Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland

Associate curator Carolyn Vega discusses The Morgan Library & Museum’s exhibition Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland. In honor of the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Morgan explo

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Artist Talk: A Conversation with Wayne Thiebaud

In conjunction with the exhibition Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman, the artist discusses the role of drawing in his practice, his beginnings as a cartoonist, his sketching habits, his love of the Old Masters, and his fondness for classic American food

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Interior of a Library

Etienne Louis Boullée

1728-1799

ca. 1780-1785

2017.17

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Young Boy in Armor

Attributed to Benedetto Gennari

1633-1715

2009.156

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Letter from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Cambridge, to Robert Southey, 1794 October 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.

Cambridge, England, 1794 October 21.

MA 1848.7

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

MORGAN LIBRARY ACQUIRES THE PARIS REVIEW ARCHIVES

Press release date

Monday, September 27, 1999

The Morgan Library announced on September 27, 1999, that it has acquired the voluminous archives of The Paris Review. Comprising the complete extant editorial, production, and business correspondence, as well as records from over forty years of operation, the archives chronicle one of the liveliest and most respected literary journals of our time.

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Paulo Orosio tradotto di latino in volgare / per Giovanni Guerini da Lanciza ; novamente stampato.

Orosius, Paulus.

[Toscolano] : P. Alex. Pag. Benacenses F. Bena. V. V., [1527-1533]

PML 50667

Classification

Binding Collection

Department

Printed Books