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    "localId": "127228",
    "label": "Portrait of a Woman",
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    "id": "127228",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Portrait of a Woman",
    "date": "1590s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.545",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter of frame: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.); Sight: 6.4 x 5.1 cm (2 1/2 x 2 in.)",
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    "accession": "1949.545"
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    "tec": "watercolor on vellum in original turned ivory case",
    "tombstone": "Portrait of a Woman, 1590s. Studio of Nicholas Hilliard (English, c. 1547–1619). Watercolor on vellum in original turned ivory case; diameter of frame: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.); sight: 6.4 x 5.1 cm (2 1/2 x 2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1949.545",
    "collection": "P - British before 1800",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"Notes from Abroad.\" <em>The International Studio </em>98 (March 1931): 59-61.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 59"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Portrait Miniatures: The Edward B. Greene</em> <em>Collection.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 27, no. 14, pl. II",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n49"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Auerbach, Erna. <em>Nicholas Hilliard</em>. London, United Kingdom: Routledge &amp; Paul, 1961.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 335, no. 290"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Detroit Institute of Arts. <em>The World of Shakespeare, 1564-1616: An Exhibition Organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Detroit Institute of Arts to Commemorate the Fourth Centenary of the Birth of William Shakespeare</em>. Richmond, Va: The Museum, 1964.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 35, p. 31, Reproduced: p. 34"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Eschwey, Maymie. <em>Portraits in Miniature: An Introductory Guide</em>. Edina, MN: Alpha editions, 1988.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 10"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. D<em>isembodied: 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. 5, pp. 48-50"
        }
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    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:33:29.556000",
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    ],
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