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Tradition, Innovation, and Response: Stage Designs from the Morgan’s Collection

June 1, 2021 through September 12, 2021

Designing a set for the theater stage presents a unique challenge: How does the artist visually transport live performers into the fictional world of the performance?

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To Observe and Imagine: British Drawings and Watercolors from the Morgan Library, 1600–1900

September 24 through December 31, 2005

To Observe and Imagine: British Drawings and Watercolors from the Morgan Library, 1600–1900, was a major survey of the Morgan's important collection of British drawings. The basis of this group dates to Pierpont Morgan's well-known 1909 purchase of virtually all the holdings of Charles Fairfax Murray, the English Pre-Raphaelite artist and collector.

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Bontamps

[15--]

Peel 0107

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[Young man holding a cat]

[France] : [15--]

Peel 0108

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Design for a shop bill / Hogarth pinxt.: Merigot Sculpt.

William Hogarth

1697-1764

[s.l.] : Pub. for S. Ireland, May 1st 1799.

Peel 0406

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Royal masquerade. Somerset House / Hogarth pinx.: T. Cook Sc.

William Hogarth

1697-1764

[17--]

Peel 0407

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The Indian Emperor, Or the conquest of Mexico; act 4, scene 4 / Painted by Wm. Hogarth: Engrav'd by Robt. Dodd.

William Hogarth

1697-1764

[London : Boydell, 1791].

Peel 0412

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The new witnesses proved old hereticks, or, information to the ignorant : in which the doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, which they stile, mysteries never before known, revealed, or heard of from the foundation of the world, are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies and heresies, from the evidence of Scripture, reason and several historians : also an account of some discourse betwixt L.M. and my self, by which his blasphemous, ignorant and unsavory spirit is clearly and truly manifested, in love to the immortal souls of those few, who are concern'd in the belief of his impostures / by a living true witness to that one eternal way of God, revealed in the light of righteousness W.P.

Penn, William, 1644-1718.

[London : s.n.], 1672.

PML 19096.13

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Printed Books

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Oriental field sports; : being a complete, detailed, and accurate description of the wild sports of the east : and exhibiting, in a novel and interesting manner, the natural history of the elephant, the rhinoceros, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the deer, the buffalo, the wolf, the wild hog, the jackall, the wild dog, the civet, and other undomesticated animals : As likewise the different species of feathered game, fishes, and serpents : the whole interspersed with a variety of original, authentic, and curious anecdotes / taken from the manuscript and designs of Captain Thomas Williamson, who served upward of twenty years in Bengal ; the drawings by Samuel Howett, made uniform in size, and engraved by the first artists. In two volumes.

Williamson, Thomas, 1758 or 1759-1817.

London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. ... for Edward Orme ... and B. Crosby ..., 1808.

PML 75963-64

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The memoirs of a Protestant, condemned to the galleys of France, for his religion. Written by himself Comprehending an account of the various distresses he suffered in slavery; and his constancy in supporting almost every cruelty that bigotted zeal could inflicht or human nature sustain; also a description of the galleys, and the service in which they are employed. The whole interspersed with anecdotes relative to the general history of the times, for a period of thirteen years; during which the author continued in slavery, 'till he was at last set free, at the intercession of the court of Great Britain ... ... Translated from the original, just published at The Hague, by James Willington [pseud.].

Marteilhe, Jean, 1684-1777.

London : Printed for R. Griffiths, and E. Dilly, 1758.

PML 39609-10

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