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                    "id": 301501,
                    "title": "40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland",
                    "description": "<i>40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Print Club of Cleveland</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 3, 1959-January 20, 1960).",
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                {
                    "id": 309656,
                    "title": "Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts",
                    "description": "<i>Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8, 1983-June 3, 1984).",
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                    "id": 187619,
                    "title": "Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints",
                    "description": "<i>Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).",
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                    "id": 282301,
                    "title": "Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings",
                    "description": "<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).",
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        "description": "To create printed reproductions of his wash drawings, Le Prince refined the method of aquatint, which uses particles of resin and acid to etch areas of granular tone into the printing plate. The finished effect imitates the subtle gradations of light and shadow achieved in wash drawings like <em>Landscape with Watermill</em>.",
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                "citation": "\"Eighteenth Century Decorative Prints.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 15, no. 7 (July 1928): 148-152",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 149; Reproduced: p. 152",
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        "catalogue_raisonne": "Le Blanc, vol. II, p. 539, no. 45  (Inventiare du Fonds Fran\u00e7ais 131)",
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