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                "inscription": "Inscribed upper left: \"Rome./1871; signed upper right: \"To EAW/With Regards[s]/of EVC [EV in monogram; Elihu and Carrie Vedder].",
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                    "title": "American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                    "description": "<i>American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).",
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                "description": "Edmund Augustus Ward, New York; Theodore Paul, Auburn, Maine; Vose Galleries, Boston [sold February 1971]; Sloan & Roman, New York; Purchased from B. Danenberg Galleries, N.Y. with monies previously given-11 December 1971.",
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        "description": "The American painter Elihu Vedder spent almost all of his career after 1866 in Rome, where this small landscape was painted. The inscription shows that it was given as a souvenir to Edmund A. Ward of New York, who had purchased a large painting from the artist.",
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