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    "localId": "120832",
    "label": "Portrait of a Man",
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    "id": "120832",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Portrait of a Man",
    "date": "1590s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.557",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Framed: 5.5 x 4.6 cm (2 3/16 x 1 13/16 in.); Unframed: 3.5 x 2.3 cm (1 3/8 x 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, late 16th century"
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    "accession": "1941.557"
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    "tec": "watercolor on vellum in a later gilt metal frame",
    "tombstone": "Portrait of a Man, 1590s. Nicholas Hilliard (English, c. 1547–1619). Watercolor on vellum in a later gilt metal frame; framed: 5.5 x 4.6 cm (2 3/16 x 1 13/16 in.); unframed: 3.5 x 2.3 cm (1 3/8 x 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1941.557",
    "collection": "P - British before 1800",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 27, no. 16; reproduced: frontispiece, no, 16",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Auerbach, Erna. <em>Nicholas Hilliard</em>. London, UK: Routledge &amp; Paul, 1961.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 335; Cat. no. 291"
        },
        {
            "citation": "De Winter, Patrick Marc. <em>Exhibit Handlist: Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance : Their Designs and Models : the Cleveland Museum of Art, November 2, 1982 - March 20, 1983</em>.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 21"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto.<em> Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives</em>. 2013.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p.84"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seyd<em>l. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2</em>013.",
            "page_number": "Cat. no. 4, pp. 45-47"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "The Edward B. Greene Collection",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:13:47.135000",
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