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A print after the Boticelli painting "Venus on the Half Shell." Venus is in the center standing on a half shell. There is a woman on her left bringing her a cloth and there are two figures on the left. The frame is brown with a very narrow outer edge.
prints (visual works)
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Print
"RI" (printed)
"FROM / WILLIAM H. GARDNER / ARTISTIC PICTURE FRAMER / 163 ESSEX STREET, SALEM, MASS." (Printed label on reverse.)
"Anna P. Phillips / May 1904 / Venus on the Half Shell / by Botticelli / Uffizi of Florence" (Handwritten note on the framer's label.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P144
Reproduction of Botticelli, Sandro, 1445-1510 (Artist)
Gardner, William H. (Framer)
Salem, Massachusetts
15 12/16 x 23 10/16 x 1 3/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.567
Massachusetts (United States)
Salem (Essex county, Massachusetts)
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