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        "tombstone": "Twelve Etchings from Nature (The French Set): The Old Rag Woman, No. 10, 1858. James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834\u20131903). Etching with chine coll\u00e9; plate: 20.8 x 14.8 cm (8 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.); sheet: 27.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King, 1922.438",
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        "title": "The Old Rag Woman, No. 10",
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        "measurements": "Plate: 20.8 x 14.8 cm (8 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.); Sheet: 27.3 x 20.8 cm (10 3/4 x 8 3/16 in.)",
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                "inscription": "Signed, lower right, in plate: Whistler [s reversed]; inscription, lower right, in plate: Imp. Delatre Rue St. Jacques. 171.",
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                    "title": "Etchings and Lithographs by Whistler: Gifts and Loans of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King",
                    "description": "<i>Etchings and Lithographs by Whistler: Gifts and Loans of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph King</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-April 2, 1923).",
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                {
                    "id": 312341,
                    "title": "The Silver Jubilee Exhibition",
                    "description": "<i>The Silver Jubilee Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).",
                    "opening_date": "1941-06-23T04:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 200460,
                    "title": "Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris",
                    "description": "<i>Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).",
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        "description": "Whistler's first set of prints, the so-called French Set, included domestic and genre scenes, studies of friends and their children, and glimpses of shadowy figures in backstreets, alleyways, and anonymous interiors. His choice of subject and treatment reflected the American ex-patriot's awareness of modern realist trends in French art. This print, made after Whistler's return to Paris from the Rhine, describes an old woman silhouetted in a doorway, thrown into relief by a shadowed interior. Bent with fatigue, she sits among bundles of scavenged rags, gathered by the poor and sold to papermakers. The image resonates with the painful combination of aging and urban poverty.",
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