Ancient Egyptian Nubians with Giraffe and Monkey Wood Print

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This is a copy of an ancient Egyptian wall mural of Nubians with a giraffe and monkey from the tomb of Rekhmire, 1504-1425 BC. The original is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The two Nubians appear to be guarding or tending to a young, frisky wild African giraffe as a small blue greens monkey with a long tail climbs up the giraffe's neck.
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I have been a visual artist since the 1960s. I'm originally from Orange County, New York, located in the Metro New York City region where I was raised on the working dairy farm [Ogden Farm] which my family founded in 1832. As a young man I spent many long hours working in gardens, crop fields, pastures and in barns with livestock. I grew up surrounded by antiques. I graduated from Bucknell University where I majored in art which included a semester in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. After Bucknell I studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. I have lived throughout the U.S. [including three years in Sante Fe, New Mexico], in the Caribbean and in Mexico and Central America. I now reside in the 19th century...