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    "localId": "134251",
    "label": "There is corn in the sea!",
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    "id": "134251",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "There is corn in the sea!",
    "date": "fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 37 x 53.1 cm (14 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "France, late 19th-early 20th Century"
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    "tec": "brush and black ink and watercolor over black crayon",
    "tombstone": "There is corn in the sea!, fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s. Jean Louis Forain (French, 1852–1931). Brush and black ink and watercolor over black crayon; sheet: 37 x 53.1 cm (14 9/16 x 20 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection, 1956.731",
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    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, lower right, in graphite: forain ; by artist, lower center, in brown watercolor: __ il y a du blé dans la mer! .... ; lower left, in graphite: Guerre Sous-Marine (1) ; lower center, in graphite: \"On va dire à Maman que c'est plein de blé, l'eau de mer.\" ; VERSO, lower center, in graphite: 14"
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