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Great European Libraries: Photographs by Massimo Listri

December 10, 2010, through January 9, 2011

The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Massimo Listri documenting iconic European libraries that similarly use fine wood, marble, and other precious materials to create an opulent setting for books.

Ruskin's Italy, Ruskin's England

September 28, 2000, through January 7, 2001

Drawn from the Morgan's Ruskin collections, among the world's most comprehensive, the exhibition explored his sweeping impact through drawings, sketchbooks, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other objects.

A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison : digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, and page, both in octavo and twelves, in the respective histories; to which are subjoined, two letters from the editor of those works: the one, in answer to a lady who was solicitous for an additional volume to the History of Sir Charles Grandison; the other, in reply to a gentleman, who had objected to Sir Charles's offer'd compromise in the Article of religion, had he married a Roman Catholic lady.

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.

London : Printed for S. Richardson; and sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes ..., 1755.

PML 75442

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Book

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Printed Books

God's terrible voice in the city: : wherein you have I. The sound of the voice, in the narration of the two late dreadfull judgments of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon the city of London, the former in the year 1665, the latter in the year 1666. II. The interpretation of the voice, in a discovery, 1. Of the cause of these judgments, where you have a catalogue of London's sins. 2. Of the design of these judgments where you have an enumeration of the duties God calls for by this terrible voice. / By T. V.

Vincent, Thomas, 1634-1678.

[London?] Printed in the year 1667.

PML 19543

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Book

Department

Printed Books

The sphere of gentry: : deduced from the principles of nature, an historical and genealogical work, of arms and blazon; : in four books, entituled, the gentleman, esquire, knight, king, Adams shield, Josephs coat, Vulan & Minerva, fountain of honour, nobility, native. dative. altchieved. created. : In which is contained, the genealogies of the patriarchs and heroe's, standards of the Jews, hieroglyphicks of the Aegyptians, symbols of the Grecians, antiquities of the Romans, arms & ensignes of the English nation: : accommodated with lively cutts on copper, as well for Aarons brest-plate as Ariadne's crown. : Drawn down to King Charles II. / By Sylvanus Morgan..

Morgan, Sylvanus, 1620-1693.

London. : Printed by William Leybourn, for the author, living at the City Coat, on the back side of the Royall Exchange., 1661.

PML 151820

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Book

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Printed Books

An historical account of the campaign of the Netherlands, in 1815, under his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blucher : comprising the battles of Ligny, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo : with a detailed narrative of the political events connected with those memorable conflicts, down to the surrender of Paris, and the departure of Bonaparte for St. Helena / drawn up from the first authorities by William Mudford ; illustrated by numerous public and private documents ... ; embellished with a series of plates ... from drawings made on the spot, by James Rouse, Esq. ; also a plan of the battle, and a map ...

Mudford, William, 1782-1848.

London : Printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1817.

PML 145703-06

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Studies of a Fantastic Bird, Toad, Frog, and Dragonfly

Jacob de Gheyn

1565-1629

2004.40

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

MORGAN LIBRARY ACQUIRES THE PARIS REVIEW ARCHIVES

Press release date

Monday, September 27, 1999

The Morgan Library announced on September 27, 1999, that it has acquired the voluminous archives of The Paris Review. Comprising the complete extant editorial, production, and business correspondence, as well as records from over forty years of operation, the archives chronicle one of the liveliest and most respected literary journals of our time.

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The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: Acquisitions Since 2002

January 23 through May 3, 2009

The show features more than eighty works that have been added to the Thaw collection since 2002, many of them important modern drawings by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Jim Dine, and David Smith, among others.

VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS TO ÉMILE BERNARD A PROMISED GIFT OF THE THAW COLLECTION TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY

Press release date

Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Morgan Library has received from the collection of Eugene and Clare Thaw a promised gift of twenty letters written by the great postimpressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890).

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