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                    "id": 302152,
                    "title": "The Vocabulary of Prints",
                    "description": "<i>The Vocabulary of Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 29-December 31, 1975).",
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                    "id": 309577,
                    "title": "French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792",
                    "description": "<i>French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).",
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                    "title": "Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention",
                    "description": "<i>Real Prints: Reproduction or Invention</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 7-May 17, 1987).",
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                    "id": 318307,
                    "title": "A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland",
                    "description": "<i>A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019).",
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        "description": "Gilles Demarteau was the first artist to master crayon-manner etching\u2014the process seen here\u2014which replicates the appearance of a red-chalk drawing. Rather than sketching with an etching needle, Demarteau used a tool called a roulette (a small, toothed wheel) to create tiny, regular dots that were then etched into the printing plate. The text along the lower margin of the image indicates that Demarteau\u2019s print of the dramatic removal of Christ\u2019s body from the cross reproduces a drawing by the well-known court painter to King Louis XV, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre. With prints like this, Demarteau took advantage of the popularity of chalk drawings in the 1700s, selling his prints to members of a growing middle class who were interested in acquiring the trappings of wealth.",
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