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"title": "The Year in Review for 1988",
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"description": "Robert (1718-1775) and Margaret Beekman (1724-1800) Livingston of Clermont; their daughter Catherine Livingston Garreston (1752-1849; her daughter Mary Rutherford Garreston (d. 1879); several generations of the Tillotson Wainwright family.",
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"description": "Chairs with their splats pierced with a decorative monogram are rare in eighteenth-century English furniture, and this chair is part of a unique American set. The initials \"R.M.L.\" are those of Robert (1718\u20131775) and Margaret Beekman (1724\u20131800) Livingston of Clemont, a house on the Hudson River north of New York City.",
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"citation": "Hawley, Henry. \u201cA Livingston Chair.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 9 (November 1989): 326\u2013331.",
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