Discover the big appeal of Yale’s smaller exhibits

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Small exhibitions worth a visit this fall

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Carl Purington Rollins at a press, 1903, Carl Purington Rollins Papers, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
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An envelope stuffer, set in Caslon, for "A Midsummer Night's Dream," 1915, Carl Purington Rollins Papers, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
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Attributed to Albertus Magnus, "The Secrets of Albertus Magnus. Of the vertues of Hearbs, Stones, and certaine Beastes." London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, 1632, Historical Medical Library Collection
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From Konrad Gesner's "The Newe Jewell of Health: wherein is contayned the most excellent secretes of phisicke and philosophie ... in which are the best approued remedies for the diseases ... of all the partes of mans bodie ..." London: Henrie Denham, 1576, Historical Medical Library Collection
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Enrico Caruso was the most celebrated tenor of his era. He was also a gifted artist and a number of his original drawings are housed at Yale, including one of Verdi from 1911, Historical Sound Recordings Collection, Gilmore Music Library
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Guiseppe Verdi, “Quotation from 'Otello,'" 1887. Verdi signed it "To Maurel / the incomparable Iago/, G. Verdi," Historical Sound Recordings Collection, Gilmore Music Library
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Side-by-side for the first time at the Lewis Walpole Library, the figure of Emma Hamilton by Frederick Rehberg, from "Drawings Faithfully Copied from Nature at Naples," 1797, and a parody by James Gillray, from "A New Edition Considerably enlarged of Attitudes." Faithfully copied from Nature," 1807
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James Caldwell after Michel Vincet Brandoin, "The Allemande Dance," 1772, Lewis Walpole Library
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Artist Michael Sloan is a New Haven native who spent a year living in Hong Kong. His paintings depict people, street markets, and scenes of social crossroads. Photo courtesy of the Yale-China Association.
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Photo courtesy of the Yale-China Association.