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    "localId": "147849",
    "label": "View from My Window in Rome (recto) Soldier in a Landscape (verso)",
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    "id": "147849",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "View from My Window in Rome (recto) Soldier in a Landscape (verso)",
    "description": "Carl Ludwig Tischbein was one of many artists who traveled from across Europe to Rome during the early 19th century and drew upon the city’s ancient past and its surrounding landscape for inspiration. This spare drawing uses Tischbein's window as a compositional device, framing a casual view of rooftops and walled gardens populated by a variety of plants and a small cat.<a href=\"https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1974.21.a#\"><br></a>",
    "date": "c. 1817",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 22.4 x 17.1 cm (8 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.); Image: 20.5 x 16.8 cm (8 1/16 x 6 5/8 in.)",
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    "tec": "graphite and pen and gray ink, framing lines in pen and black ink and graphite",
    "tombstone": "View from My Window in Rome (recto) Soldier in a Landscape (verso) , c. 1817. Carl Ludwig Tischbein (German, 1797–1855). Graphite and pen and gray ink, framing lines in pen and black ink and graphite; sheet: 22.4 x 17.1 cm (8 13/16 x 6 3/4 in.); image: 20.5 x 16.8 cm (8 1/16 x 6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Lawrence Hitchcock Fund, 1974.21",
    "collection": "DR - German",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "by artist, upper right, in graphite: Aus meinem Fenster in Rom. ; by artist, center left, in graphite: H. Peter ; FRAGMENT OF OLD MOUNT(?) (now removed): in black ink: Karl Ludwig Tischbein / 1797-1855 / [g]arantiert für Echtheit"
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    "didYouKnow": "Carl Ludwig Tischbein came from a family that produced 28 artists and artisans active in Germany and throughout Europe.",
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        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 79; Mentioned: p. 101, no. 111",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580"
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    "creditline": "Lawrence Hitchcock Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:35:20.303000",
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