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    "label": "The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 4",
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    "title": "The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 4",
    "description": "Pissarro, son of the French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro, moved to England in 1890. By 1894 he and his wife, Esther Bensusan Pissarro, had bought a printing press and established the Eragny Press. Influenced by William Morris, they were involved in every step of the production process: designing, cutting the woodblocks, setting type, and printing. The first book published by Ergany Press, The Queen of the Fishes, is based on an old fairy tale in which a peasant boy and girl escape the hardships of their lives by fantasizing that they have been turned into a giant oak and a splendid fish, respectively.",
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    "tombstone": "The Queen of the Fishes: Plate 4, 1894. Lucien Pissarro (British, 1863–1944). Color woodcut; book page: 19.2 x 13.3 cm (7 9/16 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Henry H. Hawley for the fiftieth anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1970.50.d",
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Montañés-lleras, Susana. “Of Technology and Fantasy: fairy tales, fables, and the transformation of illustration in the long 19th century.” <em>Gramarye : The Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy</em> 28 (Winter 2025): 51-65.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced p. 61, fig. 8, Mentioned: p. 63-64."
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