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    "localId": "170718",
    "label": "Steps in a Garden",
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    "id": "170718",
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    "title": "Steps in a Garden",
    "description": "William Henry Millais was closely associated with the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He sketched extensively from nature in the early 1850s. Here, Millais painted a sequestered landscape of rough-hewn steps ascending a shady slope. A smattering of light pierces a dense canopy of trees, allowing little to flourish except for the foxgloves that adorn the foreground. Ivy growing on the hillside, a decaying stump, and moss-covered steps suggest the passage of time.",
    "date": "1860",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.240",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 33.8 x 26 cm (13 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 39 x 32.4 cm (15 3/8 x 12 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, 19th century"
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    "tec": "watercolor and gouache with scratch-away technique to create highlights on sturdy-weight wove paper mounted to same by artist with color tests in margins of mount",
    "tombstone": "Steps in a Garden, 1860. William Henry Millais (British, 1828–1899). Watercolor and gouache with scratch-away technique to create highlights on sturdy-weight wove paper mounted to same by artist with color tests in margins of mount; sheet: 33.8 x 26 cm (13 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.); secondary support: 39 x 32.4 cm (15 3/8 x 12 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz, 2013.240",
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    "collection": "DR - British",
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        {
            "inscription": "initialed, in orange paint over purple paint, at lower left: WHM; inscribed, in purple paint, at lower left: 1860"
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    ],
    "didYouKnow": "William Henry Millais's brother John Everett was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and encouraged the older artist to pursue landscape as a subject.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "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. 112-3, 147, no. 37; Reproduced: p. 113"
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    "creditline": "Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz",
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