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    "localId": "140362",
    "label": "Bacchanal Before a Herm",
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    "title": "Bacchanal Before a Herm",
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            "inscription": "upper right, in brown ink: 20 ; upper center, in brown ink: 16 ; VERSO, lower left, in brown ink: 70 [sideways]"
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        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 115",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n139"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 115",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n139"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Richards, Louise S. “A Painting and Two Drawings by Castiglione.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 57, no. 8 (November 1970): 272–280.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 279, fig. 8",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152344"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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