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    "localId": "15885",
    "label": "Tracings After Scenes of Tiger Hunts",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2027"
}

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    "id": "15885",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2027",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tracings After Scenes of Tiger Hunts",
    "description": "Barye has traced illustrations of Europeans hunting tigers published in 1829 by William Harvey in his \"Tower Menagerie,\" a history of the royal menagerie in the Tower of London. Sketched on the left is a running elephant in a pose similar to the one in Barye's \"Tiger Hunt.\"",
    "provenance": "Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "second quarter 19th century",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 33
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/4 x W: 13 in. (21 x 33 cm)"
}

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    "med": "graphite on tracing paper",
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956"
    ]
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