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"inscription": "In plate: \u201cgezeichnet auf einer malersohen Reise von Salzburg nach \nBerchtesgaden im taguft 1818\u201d",
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"inscription": "below left of image; \u201cJ.A. Klein fec \nM\u00fcnchen 1819\u201d",
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"inscription": "below right of image; \u201cMeinen Reisegef\u00e4hrten gewidmet\u201d \nbelow image.",
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"inscription": "Inscription, graphite, recto: \u201c(illeg) 234.II/Portraits of artists Fr. Reinhold \nH. Reinhold Christian Erhard F. Welker\u201d",
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"citation": "Philadelphia Museum of Art, John W. Ittmann, Cordula Grewe, Warren Breckman, Mitchell Benjamin Frank, Catriona MacLeod, and F. Carlo Schmid. The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770-1850. 2017.",
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