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    The Poet and the King, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911, painter.
    Title: 
    The Poet and the King, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1904.
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    25 x 16.75 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Signed, lower right) signed
    Description: 
    A man bows before a king seated in a throne.
    Subject: 
    Literature -- Harper's Monthly Magazine
    Literature -- Cabell -- In Necessity's Morter
    Figure group
    Occupation -- Writer -- Poet
    Occupation -- Other -- Aristocrat
    Object Type: 
    Illustration
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Kelly, Richard J., Great Falls, Virginia
    Remarks: 
    Illustration for "In Necessity's Morter" by James Branch Cabell, published in Harper's Monthly, Oct. 1904, pg. 706 with the caption: "The King himself dragged me out of Meung Gaol last September, swearing that in all of France there was not my equal at a ballad."
    References: 
    "Distant lands, the art of the story: works from the Kelly collection of American illustration, 1894-1938," Knoxville, TN: Knoxville Museum of Art, 2001, no. 33.
    Illustration: 
    "Distant lands, the art of the story: works from the Kelly collection of American illustration, 1894-1938," Knoxville, TN: Knoxville Museum of Art, 2001, pg. 14.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 89430021
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