Spurred by its recent architectural makeover, the past-loving Morgan Library & Museum has decided to bring new life to its illustrious collection of works on paper by expanding it into the 20th and 21st centuries.
Museo Lázaro Galdiano, named after the businessman who bequeathed his vast private collection to the city, may not be as all-encompassing as Thyssen-Bornemisza, but neither does it share its dark past (Thyssen-Bornemizsa's illustrious collection was amassed largely through Nazi connections).
As an attendance of less than 9,000 – bolstered by 1,258 Burton fans – demonstrated, County's potential is strictly finite, especially with Forest, and their more illustrious trophy collection and far greater fan-base, just a walk across the Trent.
Son of a jurist on the state's Superior Court, he was a regular visitor to the illustrious Japanese collection at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Hays, who had previously been a close friend and an outspoken advocate for Wollstonecraft and her Rights of Woman, for example, did not include her in the collection of Illustrious and Celebrated Women she published in 1803.
The first great 18th-century exemplar is now seen to be Robert Challes, whose Illustres françaises (1713; The Illustrious French Lovers), a collection of seven tales intertwined, commands attention for its serious realism and a disabused candour anticipating Stendhal.
That illustrious connection and investment showed in what was a superb, and some said most accessible, namesake collection to date.
The British Library says that it has digitized about one per cent of its total collection (including the more illustrious examples from its 'Treasures' collection and its catalogue of illuminated manuscripts) but it specifies that its content is only open to "researchers".
Now, Streep's daughter Mamie Gummer is to star in Amazon Prime's new fashion drama The Collection, the story of an illustrious French fashion house, set in post-war Paris.
"There is no other like it, it is almost like a living thing," said Ute Wartenberg Kagan, executive director of the American Numismatic Society in Manhattan, which has a less illustrious 18th-century Cincinnati medal in its collection.
This early, seminal work of crushed car parts went from the artist's studio to his then-gallery, back to the artist and within five years into the collection of Allan Stone, the late, illustrious collector and dealer.
