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Howard Pyle

(American, 1853–1911)

In an Instant Those Long Fingers Closed on the Governor, for “Manasseh,” by Percival Gibbon in Harper’s Monthly Magazine (September 1908)

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Object Details

Artist

Howard Pyle

Date

1908

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 25 3/8 × 17 inches (64.5 × 43.2 cm)Frame: 29 7/8 × 20 1/2 × 1/2 inches (75.9 × 52.1 × 1.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Samuel B. Bird, Class of 1921

Object
Number

60.003

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