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Treasures from the Vault

February 25, 2020 to February 14, 2021

Treasures from the Vault, an ongoing exhibition series, features works drawn from these diverse collections in the sumptuous setting of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.

Prometheus Animating Man

Parmigianino

1503-1540

ca. 1524-1527

IV, 45

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Young Man Holding a Skull and a Tulip

Hendrik Goltzius

1558-1617

1614

III, 145

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Register des Buchs der Croniken und Geschichten mit Figure[n] und Pildnussen von Anbegin[n] der Welt bis auf dise un[n]sere Zeit.

Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514, author.

PML 126003

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Costume for a Man from the Cold Lands of the North

Studio of Daniel Rabel

ca. 1578-1637

1986.112:2

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Jane Austen's Letters

This digital facsimile includes fifty-one letters in Austen’s hand, the largest collection anywhere in the world.

Digital Facsimile

Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In seven books. Exemplified, in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countreys, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching and limning, ... the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities; the paintings of the antients; ... The whole doctrine of perfumes (never published till now,) together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting: and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy. To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English. II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies. The fifth edition: ... Adorned with XXV. copper sculptures; ... by William Salmon, ...

Salmon, William, 1644-1713.

London : printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, MDCLXXXV. [1685]

PML 129584

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books