{"data": {"id": 122349, "accession_number": "1942.645", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Portrait of the Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke, c. 1761. Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723\u20131792). Oil on canvas; framed: 224.5 x 201.3 x 11.4 cm (88 3/8 x 79 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 196 x 170 cm (77 3/16 x 66 15/16 in.); former: 223.5 x 198 x 9 cm (88 x 77 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance, 1942.645", "current_location": null, "title": "Portrait of the Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke", "creation_date": "c. 1761", "creation_date_earliest": 1756, "creation_date_latest": 1766, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["England, 18th century"], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "P - British before 1800", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Framed: 224.5 x 201.3 x 11.4 cm (88 3/8 x 79 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 196 x 170 cm (77 3/16 x 66 15/16 in.); Former: 223.5 x 198 x 9 cm (88 x 77 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"framed": {"height": 2.245, "height_inch": 88, "height_inch_fraction": 0.375, "width": 2.013, "width_inch": 79, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25, "depth": 0.114, "depth_inch": 4, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5}, "unframed": {"height": 1.96, "height_inch": 77, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "width": 1.7, "width_inch": 66, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375}, "former": {"height": 2.235, "height_inch": 88, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 1.98, "width_inch": 77, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "depth": 0.09, "depth_inch": 3, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.5625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 706840, "title": "Anglo-Saxon Tradition", "description": "<i>Anglo-Saxon Tradition</i>. 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Knoedler & Co., New York)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 9}, {"description": "John L. Severance, Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 10}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1942-", "sortorder": 11}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [{"id": 154630, "description": "The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke, c. 1761. Edward Fisher (British, 1722\u20131785), after Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723\u20131792). Mezzotint; image: 41.7 x 36.3 cm (16 7/16 x 14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1989.236", "relationship": null}], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Her family affectionately referred to Mary Jemima (at right) as \"Mouse.\"", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Sisters Amabel (left) and Mary Jemima are shown playing on the grounds of their family\u2019s country estate outside London. They wear loose, flowing garments invented specifically for the portrait rather than their usual outdoor dresses. Their father commissioned the painting to hang in the family\u2019s city home in London\u2019s St. James Square and it highlights their status as landowners. Joshua Reynolds painted this portrait after his return from Italy, where his studies inspired him to incorporate classical references. The famous ancient Roman <em>Statue of a Girl with a Dove </em>is echoed in Mary Jemima\u2019s pose as she shields a dove from the family dog.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60514841"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1942.645-portrait-of-the-ladi"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Cotton, W., and John Burnet. <em>Sir Joshua Reynolds and His Works</em>. London, 1856.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 36", "url": null}, {"citation": "Cook, Clarence. <em>Art and Artists of Our Time</em>. New York, NY: Selmar Hess, 1888.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 37; Mentioned: p. 37-38", "url": null}, {"citation": "Graves, Algernon, and William Vine Cronin. <em>A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds</em>. [With Plates.]. London: H. Graves &amp; Co, 1899.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 1084", "url": null}, {"citation": "Armstrong, Walter. <em>Sir Joshua Reynolds, First President of the Royal Academy</em>. 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London: Constable &amp; Company, Ltd, 1926.", "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 196", "url": null}, {"citation": "Toynbee, Paget. \"Horace Walpole's Journals of Visits to Country Seats, etc.\" <em>The Walpole Society</em>, XVI (1927--28)", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 40", "url": null}, {"citation": "Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. <em>Reynolds</em>. London, United Kingdom: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner &amp; Co, 1941.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 117; Reproduced: p. 121, pl. 70", "url": null}, {"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": "Reproduced: p. [18], Plate VI, cat. no. 14; Mentioned: p. 22, cat. no. 14", "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n26"}, {"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Bequest of John L. 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Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 154", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n178"}, {"citation": "Talbot, William S. \"Thomas Gainsborough: George Pitt, First Lord Rivers.\" <em>The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVIII</em>, no. 11 (November, 1971): 258-268.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 259, fig. 2", "url": null}, {"citation": "Hamilton, Edward. <em>The Engraved Works, of Sir Joshua Reynolds; A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 of the Engravings Made After His Paintings from 1755-1822, with Descriptions of the States of Each Plate, Biographical Sketches of the Persons Represented, a List of Pictures Which Have Been Engraved, Names of the Possessors, and Other Particulars</em>. Amsterdam, Netherlands: G.W. Hissink, 1973.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 139", "url": null}, {"citation": "Waterhouse, Ellis Kirkham. <em>Reynolds</em>. 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