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    "localId": "122564",
    "label": "Romans Admiring the Sabine Women",
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    "id": "122564",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Romans Admiring the Sabine Women",
    "date": "1570–90",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.820",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Tapestry"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.820/1942.820_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 205 x 485 cm (80 11/16 x 190 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Belgium, Brussels"
    ],
    "accession": "1942.82"
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    "tec": "silk and wool: tapestry weave",
    "tombstone": "Romans Admiring the Sabine Women, 1570–90. Belgium, Brussels. Silk and wool: tapestry weave; overall: 205 x 485 cm (80 11/16 x 190 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.820",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 59, no. 119",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n63"
        },
        {
            "citation": "William M. Milliken, Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey.\" Department of Decorative Arts.\"<em> The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, Vol. 29, No. 9 (Nov., 1942), 137–151.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 149",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141017"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Standen, Edith A. “Romans and Sabines: A Sixteenth-Century Set of Flemish Tapestries,” <em>Metropolitan Museum Journal</em>, Vol. 9 (1974), 211–228.",
            "page_number": "pp. 214, 215",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/1512664"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Standen, Edith Appleton. <em>European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art</em>. Volume I. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.820",
    "creditline": "Bequest of John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:18:50.294000",
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    "dept": "Textiles",
    "coll": "Textiles",
    "med": "silk and wool: tapestry weave",
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