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Framed print depicting a scene in a royal room. A man in a black robe is kneeling and giving children a illuminated manuscript in front of a crowd of people. Behind the figures is a window through which we can see water and a masted ship. At the bottom center of the pictures is a chained monkey. The frame is simple and painted black.
prints (visual works)
ink
wood (plant material)
paper (fiber product)
Print
"Phillips" (Handwritten on backing paper.)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
P149
Unknown
23 4/16 x 23 10/16 x 1 3/16 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.572
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