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The story of how Amnon ravished his sister Thamar, for which Absalom killed him : as it is written in the second book of Kings.

Pigotts near Speen : Rene Hague & Eric Gill, 1930.

PML 126344

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Book

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Half-length Study of a Woman seen from the Back, her Face in Profile

Auguste Renoir

1841-1919

1883

2016.9

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The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church : according to the Church of England : together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches : and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests and deacons.

London : Printed by Charles Bill and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd ..., MDCC [1700]

PML 17955

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Book

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The adventures of Theagenes and Chariclia : a romance, being the rise, progress, tryals and happy success of the heroic loves of those two illustrious persons : wherein the following histories are intermix'd, I. The treacherous slave, or, Cruel Step-mother, II. The wandering prelate, III. The fighting priest, IV. The royal adultress : with several other curious events : in two volumes / written originally in Greek by Heliodorus ... in the fourth century of Christianity, who chose to be depriv'd of his bishoprick rather than destroy this book, design'd by him for the promotion of virtuous loves.

Heliodorus, of Emesa.

London : Printed for W. Taylor ..., E. Curll, R. Gosling and J. Hooke ... and J. Browne ... and J. Osborn ..., 1717.

PML 20999-21000

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Book

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The cries of a wouded [sic] conscience. Or, The sorrowful sighs of a trembling sinner at the point of death : wherein he bitterly lamented the folly of his loose and impious life earnestly entreating God to be gracious to him in the salvation of his soul, even for his mercy's sake: concluding with an exhortation to his friends, beseeching them not to follow the bad examples of his loose life, assuring them it was a dangerous haard [sic] to trust to a death-bed repentance.

[London?] : [printer not identified], [1700s]

PML 3469.78

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Broadside

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MORGAN DIRECTOR COLIN B. BAILEY ELECTED TO THE BOARD OF THE RICHARD DIEBENKORN FOUNDATION

Press release date

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Colin B. Bailey, the director of the Morgan Library & Museum, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.

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Bellerophon Killing the Chimera

Giuseppe Porta

approximately 1520-approximately 1576

1973.42

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Crucifixion

Alessandro Magnasco

1667?-1749

1993.414

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Arms of John Rudolf Bisling with Saints John the Baptist and Rudolph

Hans Jakob Bucher

17th century

AZ212

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Stained Glass

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