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    "title": "Round Tower, Castle of Munoth, Schafhausen, Switzerland",
    "description": "Casilear began his career as an engraver but shifted to landscape painting at the suggestion of his friend, the painter Asher B. Durand (1796–1866). He made this drawing while traveling in Europe with Durand and another New York landscape painter, John Frederick Kensett (1816–1872).",
    "date": "1842",
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    "tec": "graphite and orange and yellow crayon, with traces of black and white paint",
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            "inscription": "by artist, lower right, in graphite: Round Tower taken from the top of the Castle of Munoth. Schafhausen Augst 18\" 1842 ; verso, by unknown hand, upper left,  in blue ink: 9E[illegible][crossed out in graphite] no 3 ; different hand, upper left, in graphite: swiss / 50"
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