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Humphry Repton's Red Books

Curator John Bidwell discusses Humphrey Repton's Red Books.

Humphry Repton's Red Books

Introduction
The Red Book of Hatchlands in Surrey
The Red Book of Ferney Hall
About the Red Books
Who was Humphry Repton?
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The Picturesque Controversy

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The Book of Ruth: Medieval to Modern
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Lequeu, exceptional draftsman?
Illusions of the Photographer: Duane Michals at the Morgan
British Aristocrats and American Plutocrats in the Age of Sargent
Verdi and the Ricordi Archive: An Evening with Pierluigi Ledda and Gabriele Dotto
John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal
Crafting Cruelty: Hogarth’s Innovative Drawing Methods
Annibale Carracci at the Morgan: Drawings from the Artist's Final Period
Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak’s Designs for Opera and Ballet
Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan
Pontormo from Drawing to Painting
An Impetuous Genius: Drawings by Jacopo Tintoretto
It's Alive!: A Visual History of Frankenstein
The Monstrous Other in Medieval Art
The Magic of Handwriting: The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection
Wayne Thiebaud: Draftsman
Artist Talk: A Conversation with Wayne Thiebaud
Handwriting Is Not Dead: A Conversation with Collector Pedro Corrêa do Lago
The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
Gainsborough Experiments: Cork, Broccoli, Milk, and Drawing the Landscape
Collecting the Past: Pierpont Morgan and Ancient Mesopotamia
Tennessee Williams and James Laughlin: Selected Letters
An Evening with Fran Lebowitz: On Peter Hujar
Whatever Happened to the Ides of March?
Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordeans
Tennessee Williams: No Refuge but Writing
Peter Hujar: Speed of Life
Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection
Portrait of a Docent
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
Henry James and American Painting
“Cospetto! Che bella cosa!” My what a beautiful thing
I’m Nobody! Who are you? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Treasures from the Nationalmuseum of Sweden: The Collections of Count Tessin
A Christmas Carol at The Morgan
Martin Luther and Anti-Semitism
Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will
Rembrandt’s First Masterpiece
Renzo Piano in conversation with Colin B. Bailey
Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World
Pierre-Jean Mariette and Splitting Drawings
Martin Puryear: Multiple Dimensions
Philippe de Montebello and Colin B. Bailey
Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland
An Illuminated Haggadah for the 21st Century
The Little Prince: A New York Story
Medium as Muse: Woodcuts and the Modern Book
Illuminating Faith: The Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon
In the Company of Animals: Michael Hearst on Animals and Music
In the Company of Animals: William Wegman on Dogs and Photography
In the Company of Animals: Emma Straub on Cats and Writing
Oscar wilde manuscripts
Preserving a Masterpiece: "Desilking" A Christmas Carol
Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks
Roy Lichtenstein: the Black and White Drawings, 1961–1968
Humphry Repton's Red Books
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
The Divine Jane: Reflections on Austen
Collecting William Blake
Music Manuscripts at the Morgan
Manuscripts and Letters of Oscar Wilde
New at the Morgan
Philippe de Montebello interviews William Griswold
Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan
The Prayer Book of Claude de France
The Writer's Art: A Conversation with Jean Strouse & Colm Tóibín

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