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    "localId": "119021",
    "label": "Portrait of a Man with a White Ruff",
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    "id": "119021",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Portrait of a Man with a White Ruff",
    "date": "c. 1790",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1208",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Diameter of frame: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.)",
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    "tec": "watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal and enamel frame",
    "tombstone": "Portrait of a Man with a White Ruff, c. 1790. Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818). Watercolor on ivory in a later gilt metal and enamel frame; diameter: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); diameter of frame: 11.1 cm (4 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1940.1208",
    "collection": "P - German before 1800",
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        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; <em>The Edward B. Greene Collection. </em>1951.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 37, cat. 80; Reproduced: plate XXXVI",
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