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"title": "Animal Fables of Mughal India",
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"description": "Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881\u20131958], Bowie, MD",
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"Samuel Miller Breckinridge Long (May 16, 1881\u2013September 26, 1958) was an American diplomat and politician, who served in the administrations of Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Long is largely remembered for his obstructionist role as the Assistant Secretary of State responsible for granting refugee visas during World War II.
His interests included the collection of antiques, paintings and American ship models. He maintained a stable of Thoroughbred race horses and was a director of the Laurel Park Racecourse in Laurel, Maryland, and he enjoyed fox hunting, fishing, and sailing.
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"date": "1959\u20131962?",
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"description": "(Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry)",
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"date": "1959?\u20131962",
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"did_you_know": "The animals in the background indicate that the scene is set in the wilderness.",
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"description": "The good fortune of the dervish that the prince purchased with his ring appeared to him in the form of a beautiful woman named Nikfal, meaning \u201cGood Fortune.\u201d The pair converse amiably in a grassy meadow full of deer under a lapis lazuli\u2013blue sky with gold arabesque motifs. She wears Indian garments, while the prince is dressed as a Mughal in Central Asian garments. The story is said to take place in Zabulistan, in western Afghanistan.",
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"citation": "Chandra, Pramod, and Daniel J. Ehnbom. The Cleveland Tuti-Nama Manuscript and the Origins of Mughal Painting. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.",
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"citation": "Nakhshabi\u0304, Z\u0324iya\u0304\u02bc al-Di\u0304n, and Muhammed Ahmed Simsar. Tales of a Parrot = The Cleveland Museum of Art's T\u0323u\u0304t\u0323i\u0304na\u0304ma. Cleveland: The Museum, 1978.",
"page_number": "Trans. pp. 124-129",
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"citation": "Seyller, John. \u201cOverpainting in the Cleveland T\u0324\u016bt\u012bn\u0101ma.\u201d Artibus Asiae 52, no. 3/4 (1992): 283-318.",
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