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English: Knowledge, mural by Robert Lewis Reid. Second Floor, North Corridor. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

Caption underneath reads:

IGNORANCE IS THE CVRSE OF GOD
KNOWLEDGE IS THE WING
WHEREWITH WE FLY TO HEAVEN.

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Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-02214 (original digital file), uncompressed archival TIFF version (108 MB), cropped and converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.2.13, image quality 88.
Author Artist is Robert Lewis Reid (1862–1929). Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith (1946–), who explicitly placed the photograph in the public domain.
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Public domain This work is from the Carol M. Highsmith Archive collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
Carol M. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain. Photographs of sculpture or other works of art may be restricted by the copyright of the artist.

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current12:51, 3 February 2021Thumbnail for version as of 12:51, 3 February 20211,674 × 1,704 (426 KB)TmReverted to version as of 20:33, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
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20:33, 28 August 2008Thumbnail for version as of 20:33, 28 August 20081,674 × 1,704 (426 KB)Eubulides== Summary == {{Information |Description= {{en|''Knowledge'', mural by Robert Lewis Reid. Second Floor, North Corridor. Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. Caption underneath reads: <center> IGNORANCE IS THE CVRSE OF GOD <br

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