This page refers to the altering of A Human Document by Phillips to A Humument. The poem reads, "scribe, scribe the once or twice story - the story reveal a sister story - see now the arts connect - a veil thrown over a veil - as changes made the book continue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads "Suddenly, to move to that greater ; and admired expense ; move - Suddenly moving amongst the art black fashion of Mayfair of Paris movements, - the art world smiled" This poem is about the financial excesses of the art market with an abstract expressionist image as the background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

An fauve-like painting a half portrait of a figure the right upper corner adjacent to a stylized pack of wolves(?) with an animal figure in the air above them, a visual metaphor for, to throw to the wolves. The poem is a love poem to Fiona Maddocks who was living in Oxford prior to her marriage to Phillips in October 1995. Phillips poem: "Be nice to an artist in June [visual image = don't throw him to the wolves], surprise him in London and taste his picture, o women adore art tomorrow." This is one of two versions of page 91. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page depicts the frame of a window with the date X.III.XCV (night of Phillips' wedding to Fiona Maddocks) written underneath its bottom part. The image within the frame is an abstract painting in Phillips' style. Phillips poem: "thus we touch as we touch, for this is our first world, we start tomorrow an unbelievable dream, all my tonight, and my night by night as one." At the lower right, "for f"[iona]. The wedding actually took place on Oct.29, 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads, "a nine muse world beyond the portico of legends - beyond the library - rest on a rock- beyond the music of a blossoming horse." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gerard Terborch (1617-1681). He was a Dutch painter of portraits and genre scenes noted for their subtle light and color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated No.21 in Artists' Cards series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips writes in his brochure dealing with this series of works that he painted small pictures when he had little time while working on the translating and illustrating of Dante's Inferno. It occurred to him that he could recapture the original impression of a larger space "not by making the works bigger but by making the context in which they were to be viewed smaller." He described the small paintings set into miniature gallery walls as "National Gallery of Lilliput." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips comments on El Greco's paintings at an exhibition held in the National Portrait Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.