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    "localId": "29310",
    "label": "Urchins Looking at a Lady Lifting Her Skirt",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1962"
}

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    "id": "29310",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1962",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Urchins Looking at a Lady Lifting Her Skirt",
    "description": "McLenan was originally a meat-packer in Cincinnati. He practiced drawing for his own amusement, but later adopted it as a career, emerging as a prolific illustrator.Here a young crossing-sweaper, a common sight in Victorian streets, and a companion, eye a rich lady's ankles, exposed as she navigates a dirty pavement.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1962",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
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    "imageCount": 3,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.3,
            "height": 10.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/16 x W: 4 1/4 in. (10.3 x 10.8 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Initials] Lower left: J M L",
    "med": "sepia on paper",
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    ],
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    ]
}

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