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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT THE FINAL WORKS OF THE GREAT ITALIAN DRAFTSMAN AND CLASSICIST GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

In 1777, the great Italian draftsman and printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) visited the haunting and majestic archaeological site of Paestum on the Gulf of Salerno, about 60 miles south of Naples

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Specchio delle virtuose donne : dove si vedono bellisimi lavori di ponto in aria, reticella, di maglia & piombini / Disegnati da Isabetta Catanea Parasole.

Parasole, Elisabetta Catanea, approximately 1575-approximately 1625.

In Roma : Appresso Antonio Facchetti. Alla Fontana di Trevi, 1598.

PML 37968

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

"Uninsured? That needn't be a problem. We can refer you to a very fine doctor in Ottawa." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing]

Handelsman, J. B.

MA 11571

Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Purgatorio, Canto IV, VI: Left Section of the Mountain Top Surrounded by the Sea, the Setting Sun and Stars; Constellation of Three Stars on the Right; Virgil and Dante Exit the Mouth of the Narrow Passage; Virgil and Dante Sit on a Bench; They Pass the Negligent Princes Sitting by a Large Boulder and Dante Talks to Belacqua; Sordello Embraces Virgil; Sordello Guides Virgil and Dante; Sordello Points Out Some of the Souls to Virgil and Dante

Attributed to Alessandro Vellutello

early 16th century

1966.12:12

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.

Cambridge : Printed by J. Baskerville ; London : B. Dod, bookseller, 1762.

PML 126245

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

"It's like this. If the rich have money, they invest. if the poor have money, they eat." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Fradon, Dana.

MA 12420

Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

"Lots of folks say the Reagan program is going to make a clean sweep of all our problems right away, but Mr. Pudney has stated that it will be quite some time yet before we get things licked into shape." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Booth, George, 1926-

MA 11868

Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Le romant de la rose.

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.

PML 601

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Four Evangelists single leaf montage.

Created

Rome, Italy, 1572-1585.

Accession number

MS M.270

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Le génie latin.

France, Anatole, 1844-1924.

Paris, A. Lemerre, 1913.

Heineman 128

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books