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"title": "Year in Review: 1980",
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"title": "Two Hundred Years of British Prints",
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"title": "The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art",
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"did_you_know": "George Stubbs carefully studied the different animals he depicted and even published a book on the anatomy of the horse.",
"description": "A famed animal painter, George Stubbs studied anatomy and likely had access to one of London\u2019s various menageries, where he could view animals kept as curiosities and brought to England from across the globe. Here, Stubbs used innovative printmaking techniques to capture the roughness of the tree bark, the rocky surface of the ground, and the softness of the leopard\u2019s fur. Stubbs was one of the earliest artists to experiment with soft-ground etching, which allowed him to re-create texture by transferring his image onto a printing plate through an actual drawing.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1980.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163\u2013219.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 192; Mentioned: p. 217, no. 240",
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