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        "primaryTitle": "Beginning of a Letter",
        "objectName": "letter fragment",
        "dated": "between 1801 and 1848",
        "classification": "Drawings",
        "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs",
        "medium": "pen and brown ink on beige wove paper",
        "dimensions": "Sheet: 5 5/16 × 7 7/8 inches (13.5 × 20 cm)"
    },
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        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund",
        "provenance": "(Florence Cole Vincent);\r\n1939-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "Inscription, pencil, upper central: My dear sir, \r\nMr. Barnard who is the bearer of this as a friend of an old friend of mine and an American scarcely needs an in (end)",
        "markings": ""
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            "displayName": "Thomas Cole",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, 1801-1848"
        }
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            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
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            "name": "Hudson River School",
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