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        "tombstone": "Cultivated Medlar (Mespilus germanica), c. 1800. Gerard van Spaendonck (Dutch, 1746\u20131822). Stipple and roulette. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, for the Donald Gray Memorial Collection, 1939.289",
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        "title": "Cultivated Medlar (Mespilus germanica)",
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                    "id": 309886,
                    "title": "Printing in Color",
                    "description": "<i>Printing in Color</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).",
                    "opening_date": "1985-09-10T04:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 203083,
                    "title": "The Flowering of the Botanical Print",
                    "description": "<i>The Flowering of the Botanical Print</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-July 3, 2016).",
                    "opening_date": "2016-03-26T00:00:00"
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        "description": "The brown and blue-green inks were printed <em>\u00e0 la poup\u00e9e. </em>Instead of making a plate for each color, a single plate is selectively inked in different colors using stumps of rags, known as dolls (<em>poup\u00e9e </em>in French), so that the complete design is printed at one time<em>.</em> Since this process is laborious, the plate was most often colored by hand with watercolor, like the right-hand impression. The printed color, however, creates a more beautiful effect, because all of the subtleties of the shading are evident. In comparison, the watercolor camouflages some of the finest detail.",
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