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Edgar Degas – The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436155

The Painting: This very unusual mixed-media picture shows a rehearsal for a ballet. The view is from a slightly elevated point above the orchestra pit; the scrolls of two double basses are just visible in the foreground, radically cropped at the bottom of the canvas
Washington, 1984, pp. 36–37, 44, 55, 127 n. 6, fig. 1.9, dates it about 1872.

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Adeline Harris Sears – Quilt, Tumbling Blocks with Signatures pattern – American – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/15391

In 1856, a seventeen-year-old named Adeline Harris (1839-1931) conceived of a unique project: to collect the autographs of the well-known people she most esteemed. This, in itself, was not unusual; the practice of collecting autographs of famous people was very popular in the middle decades of the nineteenth century
According to the family account and her obituary, her father brought the family to Washington

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The Shah Jahan Album – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/the-shah-jahan-album

This spectacular album, which contains intimate nature studies, portraits of the royal family and various dignitaries, and fine examples of illuminated folios of calligraphy by renowned calligraphers, offers a glimpse into the courtly life and diverse interests of its patrons.
Washington, D.C.: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1981.

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