Search | The Morgan Library & Museum

Masterworks from the Morgan presented more than three hundred masterworks drawn from all six of the Morgan's collection areas, including new acquisitions and works that have never been seen or have not been exhibited for many years.

PICTURING NATURAL HISTORY: FLORA AND FAUNA IN DRAWINGS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND PRINTED BOOKS OPENS FEBRUARY 12
FINAL EXHIBITION BEFORE MORGAN CLOSURE

Press release date

Tuesday, December 24, 2002

The wonder and beauty of nature, richly documented for over nearly a thousand years, is the subject of Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books, the Morgan Library's first exhibition devoted to natural history illustration. Picturing Natural History is the last major exhibition before the Morgan closes to the public for approximately two years to undergo an extensive expansion project.

Press

Some passages of the life and death of the Right Honourable John earl of Rochester : who died the 26th of July, 1680. Written by his own direction on his death-bed / by Gilbert Burnet, D. D.

Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.

London : Printed for R. Chiswel, 1680.

PML 7670

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Autograph letters signed (5), dated : Paris, 28 July 1827, 5 April 1848 and 26 November [1848], and 29 December 1849, and London, 4 March 1849, to his sister Nanci Berlioz [later Pal], 1827 July 28 and 1849 Mar. 4.

1827 July 28 and 1849 Mar. 4.

Accession number

Fenderson 4

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Letter

Program, Mrs. Jarramie's Genie and The Yeomen of the Guard, by Frank Desprez and W.S. Gilbert, composed by Alfred Cellier and François Cellier and Arthur Sullivan, Savoy Theatre, London, November 6 and 26, December 22 and 28, 1888.

Accession number

GSC PR 247

Published

1888

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

Collections Spotlight, Fall 2023 / Winter 2024

September 19, 2023 through January 7, 2024

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.