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Bound For Versailles: Investigating The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection By Morgan Library & Museum
Conservators from the Thaw Conservation Center took a close look at techniques used in creating these elaborate works of art.
June 23, 2021
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In the spring of 2019, Jayne Wrightsman bequeathed to the Morgan an exceptional collection of books bound for the highest echelons of 18th-century French society. In anticipation of the upcoming exhibition Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection, on view June 25 through September 26, 2021, our conservators from the Thaw Conservation Center took a close look at techniques used in creating these elaborate works of art.
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