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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?
Video
The Picturesque Controversy

Videos

Restoration of J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Overview
Morgan's Bibles: Splendor in Scripture
Telling the Story of Belle da Costa Greene
Treasures of New York: The Morgan Library & Museum
Representation Synchrome & Synchromism: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars & Morgan Russell in 1913 Paris
Collection in Focus: Prayer Book of Anne de Bretagne
Collection in Focus: The Morgan Beatus
Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings—Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist's Studio
Claude Gillot and the Paris Art World ca. 1690–1720
Gallery One: Where and How the World Met the Art of Bridget Riley
Becoming Morgan: J. Pierpont Morgan's Early Collecting
Light and Flow: Liliane Lijn's Crossing Map
Symposium: Piranesi Drawings: New Perspectives
"Variety Show" with Nina Katchadourian and Friends
Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
"An Inventive and Creating Genius:" Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan
Young Concert Artists: Hanzhi Wang, accordion, and Steven Banks, saxophone
Artist Talk: A Conversation with George Condo
The George and Nora London Foundation Competition 2023 Winners
Young Concert Artists: Aristo Sham, piano, SooBeen Lee, violin, Tony Appel, viola, Jonathan Swensen, cello
Black Oak Ensemble: Avant l'Orage — French String Trios 1926–1939
Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings
Making The Little Prince
Lecture: She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 BC
Collection in Focus: Ouida's "A Dog of Flanders"
Belle da Costa Greene and the Women of the Morgan
Collection in Focus: St. Edmund
Collection in Focus: Action Portraits
Collection in Focus: Codex Mellon
Collection in Focus: Beatrix Potter's Letters
Collection in Focus: Mahler's Fifth
Collection in Focus: Dürer's Adam and Eve
Collection in Focus: Wangechi Mutu and Juan Gris
Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton
PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs
J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise
Collection in Focus: Ravel's Bolero
One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses
Capturing Holbein: The Artist in Context
Young Concert Artists: Anthony Trionfo, flute, Albert Cano Smit, piano, Emmanuel Ceysson, harp, Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Holbein and Thomas More: An Intimate Portrait
Collection in Focus: George Condo
Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song
The George London Foundation Competition 2022 Winners
Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community
Harmony Zhu and Jonathan Swensen
Collection in Focus: Kreisler Recitativo and Scherzo performed by Kelly Hall-Tompkins
Collection in Focus: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
The Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett: 300 Years of Keeping in the Present
Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden
The City as Signifier: Nuremberg in the Nuremberg Chronicle
Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500
Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South
A Fiddler's Tale
Collection in Focus: Jack Whitten
Identity, Literature, and Art
Collection in Focus: Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag
Julie Mehretu and Shahzia Sikander In Conversation, Moderated by Gayatri Gopinath
Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities
Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection
Bound for Versailles: Investigating the Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection
Collection in Focus: The Gutenberg Bible
Collection in Focus: Domenico Tiepolo's "Punchinello" Drawings
The Sherman Fairchild Reading Room
The Women Who Made the Morgan
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
Collection in Focus: Martin Puryear's Prints
The Classical and the Contemporary: Conversation with Jim Dine
Conversations in Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection
Young Concert Artists: Jonathan Swensen, cello, and Adam Golka, piano
Tracking Down Our Roots: A Conversation with Ishmael Reed
Collection in Focus: Malick Sidibé
Young Concert Artists: Maxim Lando, piano
Young Concert Artists: Do-Hyun Kim, piano
No Soft Nonsense: Presenting the Bold Anne Brontë
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
European Blockbooks: Print-on-Demand in the 15th Century
Poetry and Patronage: The Laubespine-Villeroy Library Rediscovered
Reflecting on Rembrandt
Where in the World is Jean-Jacques Lequeu?
Young Concert Artists: Benjamin Baker, violin, and Daniel Lebhardt, piano
Into the Wild: Medieval Books of Beasts
Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being
Renoir and the Nude
Letter-writing is not dead! Part 2: Handwriting is Not Dead!
Letter-writing is not dead! Part 1: Tips and Inspiration
The Little Prince: A Virtual Tour of Saint-Exupéry's draft manuscript and drawings
Inside the Morgan: The Entrance Hall and East Room
From the Vault: Running Eros, Holding a Torch
The History of a Medieval Masterpiece
Rembrandt at the Morgan
Drawing in the Computer Age
From the Vault: Lindau Gospels
Celebrating the Morgan Book Project 2019–20
2023 YCA Winners Concert
Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo
The Black Hours at the Morgan Library & Museum
The Drawings of Al Taylor: Perspectives from a Curator and a Conservator
Musical Scripture: A Virtual Tour in Beethoven's Workshop
The Gutenberg Bible: A Virtual Tour
Sir Isaac Newton's Pocket Knowledge: A Virtual Tour of a Morgan Library Notebook
Chamber Orchestra of New York: Christmas Concerti
Chamber Orchestra of New York: Respighi & Mozart's Jupiter
Ferdinand Hodler and Mark Rothko: A Passion for the Italian Renaissance Niklaus Manuel Güdel
Touching Leaves Woman by Brent Michael Davids
Carion Wind Quintet
The Book of Ruth: Medieval to Modern
Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Lequeu, exceptional draftsman?
Collection in Focus: Sir Isaac Newton's Pocket Memorandum Book
Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts: From Ashkenaz to America
The Dresden Collection: Jan Vogler, cello, and Mira Wang, violin
Collection in Focus: The Declaration of Independence
Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Ashley Bryan & Langston Hughes: Sail Away
Collection in Focus: Mixed Media Portraits
Collection in Focus: Vincent van Gogh
LGBTQ+ Night
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
Carol Wincenc 50th Anniversary Celebration
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
Collection in Focus: Director's Choice
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan
Pontormo from Drawing to Painting
Young Concert Artists: Randall Goosby, violin, and Zhu Wang, piano
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
New Accessions | Keats in NY
Wayne Thiebaud: Draftsman
Artist Talk: A Conversation with Wayne Thiebaud
Handwriting Is Not Dead: A Conversation with Collector Pedro Corrêa do Lago
Poetry and Patronage: The Laubespine-Villeroy Library Rediscovered
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
The Research Library Today: A Conversation with Dr. Carla Hayden and Dr. Colin B. Bailey
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
Betye Saar: Call and Response
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
Rolling Stones: Looking at Ancient Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals
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
Armenian Treasures at the Morgan Library & Museum
Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland
An Illuminated Haggadah for the 21st Century
Collecting William Blake
Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks
Humphry Repton's Red Books
Illuminating Faith: The Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon

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