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    "localId": "113949",
    "label": "Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Standing Woman Holding Up Her Dress (verso)",
    "description": "After being expelled from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Whistler made his way to Europe, where he pursued the life of the artist-bohemian, first in Paris, and then in London. Whistler was a pioneer in appreciating the effects of Japanese prints, and his art is characterized by an Asian subtlety and delicacy. Whistler signed his work with a monogram representing a butterfly, which appears just below the hand of the model in this drawing.",
    "date": "c. 1872",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 27.9 x 17.6 cm (11 x 6 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 38.5 x 28.9 cm (15 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.)",
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    "collection": "DR - American 19th Century",
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        {
            "inscription": "by unknown hand, lower center, in graphite: [illegible] ; by unknown hand, lower right, in graphite: 111 FVxv / [illegible]"
        }
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    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:59:25.630000",
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