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        "accession_number": "1956.725",
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        "tombstone": "Head of a Woman, 1894 or after. Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851\u20131938). Silverpoint; sheet: 35.3 x 30.2 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection, 1956.725",
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        "title": "Head of a Woman",
        "creation_date": "1894 or after",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1894,
        "creation_date_latest": 1899,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "America"
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        "technique": "silverpoint",
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                "description": "cream(3) wove paper prepared with a beige(1) ground",
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            }
        ],
        "department": "Drawings",
        "collection": "DR - American 19th Century",
        "type": "Drawing",
        "measurements": "Sheet: 35.3 x 30.2 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "sheet": {
                "height": 0.353,
                "height_inch": 13,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.875,
                "width": 0.302,
                "width_inch": 11,
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            {
                "inscription": "signed, lower right, in metalpoint: T.W. Dewing",
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        ],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 309573,
                    "title": "American Drawings: 1900-1930",
                    "description": "<i>American Drawings: 1900-1930</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 31, 1982).",
                    "opening_date": "1982-09-07T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 309860,
                    "title": "America Draws",
                    "description": "<i>America Draws</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985).",
                    "opening_date": "1984-12-28T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 191183,
                    "title": "American Drawings from the Permanent Collection",
                    "description": "<i>American Drawings from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998).",
                    "opening_date": "1998-04-19T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "New York, Durlacher Bros., A Loan Exhibition:  Thomas W. Dewing. 26 March-20 April, 1963, no. 40 or 41 (could  be either drawing, neither is illustrated).",
                    "opening_date": "1963-03-26T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; 4/19/98 - 7/12/98.  \"American Drawings from the Permanent Collection.\"",
                    "opening_date": "1998-04-19T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Estate of Fanny Tewksbury King, Cleveland, OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1956",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "December 11, 1956\u2013",
                "sortorder": 2
            }
        ],
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        "did_you_know": null,
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "This remarkable drawing reveals the beauty of silverpoint, which requires scratching with a metal point on to a prepared paper. A demanding technique that allows no corrections, the method was used in the Renaissance by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, and it was revived in the late 19th century. Beginning in 1896, the art supply company Winsor-Newton offered a kit with a silverpoint tool and prepared paper. Dewing skillfully exploited the qualities of this technique to create an image with a silvery sheen, which seems to float upon the paper.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80026758"
            ],
            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1956.725-head-of-a-woman"
            ]
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Hobbs, Susan and Shoshanna Abeles.<em> Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty into Art: A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301</em>. [Alexandria, VA]: The Thomas Wilmer Dewing Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9; New Haven: in association with Yale University Press, 2018.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 998, cat. # 567; Reproduced: p. 999, plate 567",
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            }
        ],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.725",
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        "creditline": "The Fanny Tewksbury King Collection",
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                "description": "Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American, 1851\u20131938)",
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        "accession_date": "1956-12-11T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:49:30.744000"
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