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    "label": "Ruins of Chateau d'Arque",
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    "title": "Ruins of Chateau d'Arque",
    "date": "1819",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 21.5 x 18.3 cm (8 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper",
    "tombstone": "Ruins of Chateau d'Arque, 1819. Isidore Justin Taylor (French, 1789–1879). Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper; sheet: 21.5 x 18.3 cm (8 7/16 x 7 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz, 2013.243",
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    "collection": "DR - French",
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            "inscription": "inscribed, lower left, in graphite: illegible upper line of text; lower line of text, probably artist's signature and date, has been cropped. \r\ninscribed, verso, center, in graphite: Vue du chateau d'arque / Vue en dieppe / SS\r\non mat, two small pieces of attached paper: one below drawing, in brown ink: le Baron Taylor. 1819; the other, below first, in graphite: Chateau d'arques. These pieces of paper do not match that of the drawing support, and were probably salvaged from an earlier mount."
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