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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

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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.

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Nova Francia, or The description of that part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia : described in the three late voyages and plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué and Monsieur de Poutriucourt, into the countries called by the French-men La Cadie, lying to the South west of Cape Breton : together with an excellent seuerall treatie of all the commodities of the said countries, and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same / [Marc Lescarbot] ; translated out of French into English by P.E.

Lescarbot, Marc.

London : G. Bishop, 1609.

PML 3435

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Printed Books

Draftsmen of the Medici Court: Drawings from the Morgan

February 29 through May 11, 2008

The Morgan Library & Museum presents from its rich permanent collection a select group of related works by artists at the court of Duke Cosimo I dei Medici (1519–1574).

Pier Leone Ghezzi Album

Pier Leone Ghezzi, 1674-1755, Album of 64 Caricatures, 1978.27.

Digital Facsimile