# Coles Phillips2 Life

- By: Coles Phillips
- Date: Published in January 1910
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.01605. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
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- Rights: Public domain
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"Know all men by these presents": Cover illustration shows a woman seated on the floor next to a table whose surface is covered with gifts. Above gifts from various gentlemen callers are displayed: a photograph, a corkscrew, a box, a purse, a fan and the book Of the Imitation of Christ. The blue in the woman's dress matches the blue of the background, creating a sense of negative space, typical of Phillips' "Fade-away girl". Published as cover illustration: Life magazine, January 27, 1910. One drawing: gouache, watercolor and charcoal over graphite underdrawing. Digital file from original. The name of the illustration is a play on a common introduction to a legal or official document, calling on all who see the document to take notice of its contents or subject matter.