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    "localId": "166198",
    "label": "Virgin and Child",
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    "id": "166198",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Virgin and Child",
    "description": "Larger in size than most portrait miniatures, the Madonna and Child by Anna Maria Carew is a cabinet miniature, or a small work on vellum, enamel, or ivory that copies a full-scale oil painting. In this case the original painting was by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, and engraved by Paulus Pontius around 1630 shortly after it was painted. As a cabinet miniature, this work is somewhat unusual because of its religious subject and its simplicity. Cabinet miniatures tended instead to reproduce paintings of dramatic subjects and climactic moments in myths or religious stories. They could be hung on the wall or stored in elaborate and specially designed furniture, and they were often displayed in the smaller, more private rooms of a house.",
    "date": "c. 1662",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.148",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Portrait Miniature"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.148/2008.148_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diameter: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "2008.148"
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    "tec": "watercolor heightened with gum on vellum, with gold",
    "tombstone": "Virgin and Child, c. 1662. Anna Maria Carew (British), after Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641). Watercolor heightened with gum on vellum, with gold; diameter: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.148",
    "collection": "P - British before 1800",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed at right center: \"Maria Carew / fect\""
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "King Charles II awarded Carew an annual pension to copy in miniature from the royal collection.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Early British Drawings, Watercolours and Portrait Miniatures.</em> London: Sotheby's, 2008.",
            "page_number": "no. 101"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. <em>Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives.</em> 2013.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 87"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl.<em> British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 2013.",
            "page_number": "Cat. no. 18, pp. 98-102"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.148",
    "creditline": "Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:34:46.970000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.148/2008.148_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 166198,
    "dept": "European Painting and Sculpture",
    "coll": "P - British before 1800",
    "med": "watercolor heightened with gum on vellum, with gold",
    "creatorTags": [
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        "male"
    ],
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