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THE MORGAN ACQUIRES IMPORTANT DRAWINGS BY DAVID HOCKNEY, MARTIN PURYEAR, AND JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT

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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Morgan Library & Museum announced today the acquisition of three major drawings by David Hockney, Martin Puryear, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Each is a valuable addition to a drawings collection at the Morgan that is considered one of the greatest in the world.

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Examen de ingenios : The examination of mens wits. In which, by discovering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein / by Iohn Huarte ; translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camilli ; englished out of his Italian, by R.C., esquire [i. e. Richard Carew].

Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588.

London : Printed by Adam Islip, for Thomas Adams, 1616.

PML 6219

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Book

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Printed Books

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A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable and to reduce the truth to its original purity : in this work is given an history of the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Canaanites, Helladians, Ionians, Leleges, Dorians, Pelasgi : also of the Scythae, Indoscythae, Ethiopians, Phenicians ... / by Jacob Bryant ...

Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804.

London : Printed for T. Payne ... P. Elmsly ... B. White ... and J. Walter ..., 1774-1776.

PML 75820-22

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The pious parent's gift, or, A plain and familiar sermon, wherein the principles of the Christian religion, are proposed, and clearly represented to the minds of children : each part of which is accompanied with select verses from the works of Dr. Watts / by William Mason ... to which is added, The closet companion : and The swearer's prayer.

Mason, William, 1719-1791.

Hartford : Published by O.D. Cooke, B. & J. Russell, Print., 1815.

PML 80467

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Printed Books

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A plan of the west line or parallel of latitude, which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pensylvania [map] : a plan of the boundary lines between the province of Maryland and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware with part of the parallel of latitude which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania / J. Smither sculpsit.

Mason, Charles, 1728-1786.

[Philadelphia : Robert Kennedy, Aug. 16, 1768]

PML 77700

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Map

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Printed Books

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A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable and to reduce the truth to its original purity : in this work is given an history of the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Canaanites, Helladians, Ionians, Leleges, Dorians, Pelasgi : also of the Scythae, Indo-Scythae, Ethiopians, Phenicians ... / by Jacob Bryant ...

Bryant, Jacob, 1715-1804.

London : Printed for T. Payne ... P. Elmsly ... B. White ... and J. Walter ..., 1775-1776.

PML 145580-82

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Printed Books

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A discourse concerning Lent : in two parts : the first an historical account of its observation, the second an essay concern[ing] its original : this subdivided into two repartitions whereof the first is preparatory and shews that most of our Christian ordinances are deriv'd from the Jews, and the second conjectures that Lent is of the same original / [by George Hooper].

Hooper, George, 1640-1727.

London : Printed by Tho. Warren for Walter Kettilby, 1695.

PML 127537

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London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.

Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887.

London : Office [of the London Chronicle], 16, Upper Wellington Street, Strand, 1851-1861.

PML 147168-70

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Incipit noua [com]pilatio decretalium gregorij .ix.

Gregory IX, Pope, approximately 1170-1241.

PML 19375

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books
Gospel book (MS M.621).

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Constantinople, ca. 1650.

Display Date

ca. 1650.

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MS M.621

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Manuscript

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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts