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    "localId": "117908",
    "label": "Albano, Italy",
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    "id": "117908",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Albano, Italy",
    "description": "This lyrical drawing on brilliant blue paper was done on a trip to Italy, where George Inness made a series of watercolor sketches of the Italian countryside in the vicinity of Albano. In contrast to the precision of his earlier Hudson River school paintings, in the early 1870s his work achieved a new freedom. This drawing is reminiscent of a classical Italian landscape, illustrating a broad expanse with a road winding through an Italian village, complete with framing trees in the foreground and ancient fortifications in the background. Inness made this drawing by applying wet washes one on top of another, intentionally creating a blurred effect, like that of a memory from the distant past.",
    "date": "c. 1872",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1938.62",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 32.6 x 24.2 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "accession": "1938.62"
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    "tec": "watercolor with gouache over graphite",
    "tombstone": "Albano, Italy, c. 1872. George Inness (American, 1825–1894). Watercolor with gouache over graphite; sheet: 32.6 x 24.2 cm (12 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection, 1938.62",
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            "description": "blue wove paper"
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    ],
    "collection": "DR - American 20th Century",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Signed, lower right, in graphite: \"G. Inness\""
        },
        {
            "inscription": "verso, by unknown hand, in graphite"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Upper left: \"No 11\""
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Lower left, in graphite: \"No 21 [crossed out] 16 [circled]\""
        }
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Francis, Henry S. “The Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 25, no. 6 (1938).",
            "page_number": "p. 124–31",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137944"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lemonedes, Heather, \"Visible Spirit\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 44 no. 07, September 2004",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-07/page/n5"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:06:18.177000",
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