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    "localId": "138504",
    "label": "Souvenir of Seville",
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    "id": "138504",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Souvenir of Seville",
    "description": "As famous for his watercolors on silk as he was for his self-destructive lifestyle, Charles Conder belonged to a generation that the poet W. B. Yeats called \"the last Romantics.\" His delicately tinted watercolors seem like fragments of a lost era, conjuring an imaginary world of beauty, leisure, and luxury. This painted fan was made on a trip to Spain that Conder took with his wife, Stella Maris, to witness the celebration and pageantry of Holy Week and Easter. Its bold color and dynamic composition memorialized a period of health and happiness spent in the Mediterranean.",
    "date": "1905",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.398",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Fabric: 20.3 x 39.7 cm (8 x 15 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, 20th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1962.398"
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    "tec": "watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk",
    "tombstone": "Souvenir of Seville, 1905. Charles Conder (British, 1868–1909). Watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk; fabric: 20.3 x 39.7 cm (8 x 15 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, 1962.398",
    "collection": "DR - British",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Inscribed, at center, in red watercolor and shell gold: FOR MY DEAR / STELLA / MARIS / SOUVENIR / OF SEVILLE / APRIL 1905; signed at lower left, in gray watercolor: CONDER; at lower right, in red watercolor and shell gold: CONDER"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Charles Conder exhibited his first fan design in 1893 and created a significant number of similar works over the following 15 years.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Galbally, Ann. <em>Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian</em>. Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2002.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 266"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 134-35, 144, no. 46; Reproduced: p. 135"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.398",
    "creditline": "In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:05:51.567000",
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    "med": "watercolor, gouache, and shell gold with graphite on silk",
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