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    "localId": "127565",
    "label": "James Alexander Ross Cuthbert",
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    "id": "127565",
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    "title": "James Alexander Ross Cuthbert",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Framed: 7.7 x 6.5 cm (3 1/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 7.3 x 5.9 cm (2 7/8 x 2 5/16 in.)",
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        {
            "inscription": "signed right:  Malbone. 1799"
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            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; <em>The Edward B. Greene Collection.</em> 1951.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 38, cat. 88, p. 19; Reproduced: plate XLII",
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