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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS MONTH-LONG EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY MASSIMO LISTRI OF THE GREAT LIBRARIES OF EUROPE

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Friday, November 19, 2010

On the occasion of the most extensive restoration of the McKim building's sumptuous interiors in over a hundred years, The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Massimo Listri documenting iconic European libraries.

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Plein Air Sketching in the North

December 11, 2018 through August 25, 2019

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.

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Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing 552D

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Sol LeWitt's Wall Drawing 552D, generously donated to the Morgan by the Estate of Sol LeWitt, will be installed in the Morgan's Gilbert Court this summer.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT JIM DINE'S IMPORTANT "GLYPTOTEK DRAWINGS" FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Jim Dine's series of extraordinary drawings inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture and sourced primarily at the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, Germany will receive its first New York showing in a new exhibition opening May 20 at The Morgan Library & Museum.

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NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS EXPLORES THE EVOLUTION OF HIGH FASHION DURING THE LATE MIDDLE AGES

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Friday, March 25, 2011

The complex and rich history of courtly fashion of the late Middle Ages as seen in the manuscripts and early printed books of the period is the subject of a fascinating new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum entitled Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands.

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The thre bokes of cronicles, whyche John Carion (a man syngularly well sene in the mathematycall sciences) gathered wyth great diligence of the beste authours that haue written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine. Wherunto is added an appendix, conteynyng all such notable thynges as be mentyoned in Cronicles to haue chaunced in sundry partes of the worlde from the yeare of Christ, 1532 to thys present yeare of 1550. Gathered by John Funcke of Nurenborough, whyche was never afore prynted in Englysh.

Carion, Johannes, 1499-1537 or 1538.

[London, Printed for G. Walter Lynne, 1550]

PML 17223

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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste ... : to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture and rules of perspective, with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large and the dimensions of each design specified : the whole comprehended in one hundred and sixty copper-plates, neatly engraved ... / by Thomas Chippendale ...

Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

London : Printed by J. Haberkorn ... for the author, and sold at his house in St. Martin's-Lane, also by T. Osborne [and 5 others], 1754.

PML 53030

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A rational illustration of the Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : Wherein liturgies in general are proved lawful and necessary, and an historical account is given of our own ... The whole being the substance of every thing material in all former ritualists, commentators or others ... collected and reduc'd into one continued and regular method, and interspersed ... with new observations.

Wheatly, Charles, 1686-1742.

London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Rivington, 1720.

PML 7792

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Annals of Philadelphia, : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, & incidents of the city and its inhabitants from the days of the Pilgrim founders. Intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city in its local changes and improvements. : To which is added an appendix, containing olden time researches and reminiscences of New York City. : [Five lines of verse] / By John F. Watson, member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860.

Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart; ; New York, : G. & C. & H. Carvill., 1830.

PML 75516

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Actes made in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the. v. day of October, in the fyrst yere of the reigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Mary, by the grace of God, Queene of Englande, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith, & of the church of England, and of Ireland in earth the Supreme head. And there continued to the .xxi. day of the same moneth, that is to say, in the fyrst session of the same Parliament, as foloweth.

Excusum Londini : In edibus Iohannis Cawodi typographi regiae maiestatis ; anno Domini. M.D.LIIII. [1554]

PML 15136

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