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    "localId": "170713",
    "label": "Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots",
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    "id": "170713",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots",
    "description": "Charles Green was one of the most successful black-and-white illustrators in Victorian England, known especially for his images related to the novels of Charles Dickens. The subject of this drawing relates to the writer's historical novel <em>Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty</em>, based on the Gordon Riots. Here, Green depicted participants in an anti-Catholic protest against the Papists' Act of 1778, the most violent outpouring of religious hatred in 18th-century Britain.",
    "date": "1884",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 25.4 x 17.6 cm (10 x 6 15/16 in.)",
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    "tec": "watercolor with traces of graphite",
    "tombstone": "Barnaby Rudge Helping Lead the Gordon Riots, 1884. Charles Green (British, 1840–1898). Watercolor with traces of graphite; sheet: 25.4 x 17.6 cm (10 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz, 2013.238",
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    ],
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        {
            "inscription": "initialed and dated, in brown ink, at lower right: CG / 1884"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This drawing was never published as an illustration, but the character of Barnaby appeared in Charles Green's design for a title page for an edition of Dickens's collected works.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Victorian Era Exhibition, 1897: Catalogue, Historical and Commemorative Sections</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Earl's Court, 1897.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 33, no. 69",
            "url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t2r55jj4h"
        },
        {
            "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. 128-29, 146, no. 43; Reproduced: p. 129"
        }
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.238",
    "creditline": "Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz",
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