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An oil painting of a white house, at night. Top half of piece is dark blue, the bottom half is dark green. Frame is deep set, gold painted. Carved texture on inside of both the outer and inner edges of frame.
oil paintings (visual works)
canvas
oil paint (paint)
Painting
"M" (Artisit's initial enclosed in a circle)
"unappraised Murphy for hung storage" (hangtag on back of work)
"Found in 3rd floor storeroom closet / wrapped in yards of unbleached muslin / together with George Curtis painting of ship in / Boston Harbor" "Dec. 1973 / B.W.P." (handwritten not on brown paper in accession file)
"Beautiful carved gold frame / Picture of home no one recognizes / Mrs. Peabody's name on back." (handwritten in pencil on brown paper, in accession file.)
"Mrs. Anna P. Peabody / 47 Commonwealth Ave. / Mrs. Peabody" (Handwritten in pencil on the backing board.)
"19M04" (The "M" is in a circle. This is carved into the back, bottom of frame.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P129
FA152
Murphy, Hermann Dudley, 1867-1945 (Artist)
20 2/16 x 24 4/16 x 3 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.552
1904 (Carved into back bottom of frame)
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