Word: lente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four important French manuscripts are now on exhibition in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum: two Psalters dating from the thirteenth century, and "Les Chroniques de France, dites Chroniques de St. Denis," of the fourteenth century, lent by John Pierpont Morgan, and a fourteenth century Bible lent by W. A. White of Brooklyn. All of the manuscripts contain miniatures rich in color and beautiful in execution, characteristic of the periods in which they were made...
...first edition; the "Descriptive Sketches" bound by the famous binder Langorski and "Evening Walk"; a manuscript, "The Stone-pine of Monte Mario at Rome"; and a "Prelude," which-belonged to Lock-hart, the biographer of Scott. The prize book of the collection is, however, "An Account of the Books Lent out of the Library at Rydale Mount" in the original sheep, in the autograph of William Wordsworth and of Dorothy Wordsworth. In this account are entered the names of de Quincey, Dr. Arnold, and others, as having borrowed books...
...remarkably fin portrait by Goya has been lent to the Fogg Art Museum and placed on exhibition in the Gallery. The portrait represents the Toreador Romero and is a striking characterization. It is painted in warm grays, black, white, and violet, with a bright not in the rose colored lining of the sitter's jacket, and is executed with great subtlety and refinement of technique...