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Collections Spotlight, Spring 2024

January 9 through May 12, 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.

Color Study for Vernet's Cafe

Walter Sickert

1860-1942

1920s

2009.294

Classification

Drawing

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

Bivouac near Boghari (Bivouac au pied du Boghari)

Eugène Fromentin

1820-1876

ca. 1852-1853

2007.93

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Epistles domestic, confidential, and official, from General Washington. Written about the commencement of the American contest, when he entered on the command of the army of the United States. With an interesting series of his letters, particularly to the British admirals, Arbuthnot and Digby; to General Sir Henry Clinton, Lord Cornwallis, Sir Guy Carleton, Marquis de la Fayette, &c. &c. To Benjamin Harrison, esq., speaker of the House of delegates in Virginia, to Admiral the Count de Grasse, General Sullivan, respecting an attack of New-York; including many applications and addresses presented to him, with his answers: orders and instructions, on important occasions, to his aids de camp, &c. &c. &c. None of which have been printed in the two volumes published a few months ago.

New York, Printed by G. Robinson and J. Bull, 1796.

PML 3678

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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.