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    "localId": "117129",
    "label": "Strawberry Thief",
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    "id": "117129",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Strawberry Thief",
    "description": "Perhaps the most recognizable of Morris’s textiles, <em>Strawberry Thief</em> celebrates the thrushes in Kelmscott Manor’s garden. May Morris remarked, “You can picture my Father going out in the early morning and watching the rascally thrushes at work on the fruit beds and telling the gardener who growls, ‘I’d like to wring their necks!’ that no bird in the garden must be touched.” With <em>Strawberry Thief, </em>Morris perfected the indigo-discharge process, which required the entire cloth to be dyed blue before it was bleached and block printed, in this case with more colors than any of his other textiles.",
    "date": "c 1936",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.696",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60745767"
    ],
    "creators": [
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    ],
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        "Textile"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.696/1937.696_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 88.3 x 99.1 cm (34 3/4 x 39 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, Merton Abbey, 20th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1937.696"
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    "tec": "plain weave cotton, discharge printed",
    "tombstone": "Strawberry Thief, c 1936. Designed by William Morris (British, 1834–1896). Plain weave cotton, discharge printed; overall: 88.3 x 99.1 cm (34 3/4 x 39 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry Chisholm, 1937.696",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Parry, Linda. William Morris Textiles. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983.",
            "page_number": "p. 155, no 46"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lemonedes, Heather. “Imaging the Garden: The garden is a ground plot for the mind. —Thomas Hill, <em>The Gardener’s Labyrinth</em> (1577).” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 55, no. 6 (November/December 2015): 4-6.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 6",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2015-06"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Korkow, Cory. \"Textiles.\" IN <em>William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise.</em> Cory Korkow and Victoria Hepburn, 8-23. Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 18-19; reproduced: p. 19, fig, 13."
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Henry Chisholm",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:05:10.628000",
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    "sourceId": 117129,
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    "med": "plain weave cotton, discharge printed",
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