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    "localId": "137152",
    "label": "A Monk Preaching",
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    "id": "137152",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "A Monk Preaching",
    "date": "mid 17th century?",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.115",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.115/1962.115_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 19.5 x 21.9 cm (7 11/16 x 8 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 23.9 x 26.6 cm (9 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, 17th century"
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    "accession": "1962.115"
}

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    "tec": "pen and brown ink (iron gall?) and brush and brown wash",
    "tombstone": "A Monk Preaching, mid 17th century?. Pier Francesco Mola (Italian, 1612–1666). Pen and brown ink (iron gall?) and brush and brown wash; sheet: 19.5 x 21.9 cm (7 11/16 x 8 5/8 in.); secondary support: 23.9 x 26.6 cm (9 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1962.115",
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    ],
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            "inscription": "VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in graphite: 2. ; lower left, in blue ballpoint pen: C = ; lower left and lower center, in graphite: P. Crozat[t?]  (1661-1740)  Lugt 474"
        }
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    "creditline": "Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund",
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