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    "label": "Mercury",
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    "title": "Mercury",
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            "inscription": "signed, lower right, in graphite: Kenyon Cox ; by unknown hand, in graphite, lower center: 11 3/4 x 19-  15 3/4 x 23"
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            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37.",
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