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"id": 311461,
"title": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland",
"description": "Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).",
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"title": "Imagination in the Age of Reason",
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"did_you_know": "Maria Catharina Prestel and her husband reproduced famous drawings from collections across Europe.",
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"description": "As drawings became increasingly sought-after items by collectors in the 1700s, enterprising printmakers created ever-more convincing reproductions for the expanding market. Aquatint, a relatively new etching technique at the time, allowed artists like Maria Catharina Prestel to more faithfully replicate the wide range of tones common in wash drawings. This is visible, for example, in the swirling clouds surrounding the raised fist of Truth. Prestel also developed a technique to translate the golden highlights of the original drawing. She printed additional inked lines to which she adhered powdered gold leaf while they were still wet.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William. \"The Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection Gift of Leonard C Hanna.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 6 (June 1939): 84-115",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 112; Reproduced: p. 115",
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"catalogue_raisonne": "LeBlanc III.248.61 (as Jean Th\u00e9ophile Prestel); Nagler XIII.259.59 (as Johann Theophilus Prestel); Schwaighofer 36",
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