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Study possibly for an architectural frieze with a central arched section, over which are the words 'Musice Modulatus'. A choir of seven females, in romanticised antique-style drapery, is shown singing. The central singer is laureate; to the left, two women play artistic versions of the medieval trumpet while another plays a recorder. To the right two women play whilst another tunes a violin. Centre front, framing the singers, are two men dressed in antique style, playing harps fashioned from elephant tusks, probably with gut strings. A leopardskin cloth falls over the floor in the lower front right.