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    "localId": "18607",
    "label": "Mountain Landscape",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.4"
}

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    "id": "18607",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.4",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mountain Landscape",
    "description": "This is the countryside as it ought to be: at lower right a man sits on the riverbank grasping a fish, his sandals beside him; in the distance, boys ride water buffalo. Best of all would be to live the life of one of the leisured scholars in the elaborate pavilion, sitting at a desk or enjoying a meal.Spurious signature of Hsieh H'üan.",
    "provenance": "Panama Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 7]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "17th century (Ming or Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.4",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 159.4,
            "height": 91.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 62 3/4 x W: 35 7/8 in. (159.4 x 91.1 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] lower left; [Seal] lower left; [Seal] lower right",
    "dynasty": "Ming [Ming]-Qing [Ch'ing Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and color on silk mounted on paper",
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        "6238"
    ],
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    ],
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    ]
}

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