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Individuality and Identity: Naming Sitters in French Portrait Drawings

December 16, 2025 through March 15, 2026

This exhibition explores stories of (mis)identification in drawings by some of nineteenth-century France’s most renowned artists and their followers, including Théodore Chassériau, Charles Damour, Eugène Delacroix, Joseph Ducreux, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Léon Louis Antoine Riesener, examining portraiture’s powers and limitations in capturing histories, personalities, and identities.

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Anakreontos Tēiou Melē = Anacreontis Teii odae, Paris, 1552-1554 : manuscript in the hand of Henri Estienne.

Anacreon, author.

MA 23937

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Horae: ad usum Romanum.

PML 129974

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Apollo on His Chariot Smiting the Python

Attributed to Jean Bérain

1640-1711

2003.11

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Golden legend.

Created

Bruges, Belgium, 1445-1465.

Display Date

1445-1465.

Accession number

MS M.672-675

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Amherst Coptic Papyrus 10.1-3.

Accession number

Amh. Copt. Pap. 10.1-3

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
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

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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The honour of the taylors, or, The famous and renowned history of Sir John Hawkwood, Knight : containing his many rare and singular adventures, witty exploits, heroick atchievements, and noble performances relating to love & arms in many lands : in the series of which history are contained likewise the no less famous actions and enterprizes of others of the same art and mystery : with many remarkable passages relating to customs, manners &c., ancient and modern : illustrated with pictures and embelished with verses and songs wonderfully pleasant and delightful : to which, as an appendix, is added a brief account of the original of the Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors, as to their being incorporated &c., ...

Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.

London : Printed by Alexander Milbourn for William Whitwood ..., 1687.

PML 6393

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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The English myrror. : A regard wherein al estates may behold the conquests of enuy : containing ruine of common weales, murther of princes, cause of heresies, and in all ages, spoile of deuine and humane blessings, : vnto which is adioyned, Enuy conquered by vertues. Publishing the peaceable victories obtained by the Queenes most excellent Maiesty, against this mortall enimie of publike peace and prosperitie, : and lastly A fortris against enuy, builded vpon the counsels of sacred scripture, lawes of sage philosophers, and pollicies of well gouerned common weales : wherein euery estate may see the dignities, the true office and cause of disgrace of his vocation : a worke safely, and necessarie to be read of euerie good subiect. / By George Whetstones ...

Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?

At London : Printed by I. Windet for G. Seton, and are to be sold at his shop vnder Aldersgate, 1586.

PML 6581

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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A Pleasant and useful companion to the Church of England, or, A short, plain, and practical exposition of the Book of Common Prayer : containing the harmony of the several parts and offices, and the substance of the liturgical remarks of Bp. Sparrow, Dr. Comber, Mr. Wheatley, Mr. Nelson, and the other learned writers on the same subject : as also a concise account of the feasts and fasts : carefully collected into a narrow compass, chiefly for the convenience of those who have not the opportunity of perusing many and larger books; but made serviceable to all by the addition of new observations : to which is prefixed, an introduction containing, a short account of the lives of the compilers of the liturgy.

London : Printed for J. Newbery ... , 1764.

PML 83724

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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