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EARLIEST COLOR ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE CHRISTMAS POEM “A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS” ENTERS THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM COLLECTION

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Monday, November 25, 2024

The Morgan Library & Museum has acquired the earliest manuscript with color illustrations of the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”( more famously known as “The Night Before Christmas”) by Clement Clarke Moore.

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A Fairy Seated on a Riverbank, a Drowned Man Floating By (for Archibald Maclaren's "The Fairy Family")

Edward Coley Burne-Jones

1833-1898

London, 1854-1856.

1982.10:26b

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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A Seated Fairy (for Archibald Maclaren's "The Fairy Family")

Edward Coley Burne-Jones

1833-1898

London, 1854-1856.

1982.10:26c

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Wife with husband carrying groceries : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Smith, Claude.

MA 11821.1-8

Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Study for stage set (The Cunning Little Vixen)

Maurice Sendak

1983

2013.105:26

Classification

Drawing

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

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The Gardens of Versailles with the Fountain of Neptune (Le Bassin de Neptune, Versailles)

William Callow

1812-1908

1837

2007.83

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti, pittore, scultore, architetto e gentiluomo fiorentino / pubblicata mentre viveva dal suo scolare Ascanio Condivi.

Condivi, Ascanio, approximately 1520-

In Firenze : Per Gaetano Albizzini ..., 1746.

PML 77206

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Visitation

Walton Ford

1960-

2004

2023.161:6

Classification

Drawing

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

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Visitation

Walton Ford

1960-

2023.161:6

Classification

Print

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

Prints

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Loft living : cover illustration for The New Yorker [drawing].

Martin, Charles E. (Charles Elmer), 1910-1995.

MA 12484

Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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