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    "localId": "120833",
    "label": "Portrait of a Man",
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    "id": "120833",
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    "title": "Portrait of a Man",
    "date": "c. 1625",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.558",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.558/1941.558_web.jpg",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Framed: 5.2 x 4.2 cm (2 1/16 x 1 5/8 in.); Sight: 5 x 3.9 cm (1 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "watercolor on vellum with gold border",
    "tombstone": "Portrait of a Man, c. 1625. John Hoskins (British, c. 1590–1665). Watercolor on vellum with gold border; framed: 5.2 x 4.2 cm (2 1/16 x 1 5/8 in.); sight: 5 x 3.9 cm (1 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1941.558",
    "collection": "P - British before 1800",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed left:  IH [monogram]"
        }
    ],
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        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Portrait Miniatures </em>; <em>The Edward B. Greene Collection.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 28, no. 20",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n7"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Comstack, Helen. \"The Edward B. Greene Collection of Miniatures.\" <em>The Connoisseur </em>128, no. 532 (October 1951): 137-144.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 139"
        },
        {
            "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. Seydl.<em> British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2</em>013.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 11, pp. 73-75"
        }
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    "creditline": "The Edward B. Greene Collection",
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    "dept": "European Painting and Sculpture",
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