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        "title": "Studies of Hands Playing Instruments (verso)",
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                "inscription": "lower left, in red chalk: 17 [sideways] ;  lower right, in graphite: Piazzetta\r\n\r\n",
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                    "title": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition",
                    "description": "<i>Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).",
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                {
                    "description": "cma 1941b; Cambridge 1948; Oberlin 1951, 54, no. 12; cma 1958-59; cma 1959-60a; cma 1965b; Cleveland 1980, 54, fig. 63, 56; cma 1981c; cma 1983f; Washington 1983-84, 9, 24, 68, no. 15; cma 1986-87b; London/Washington 1994-95, 166, 480, no. 87.",
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