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    "localId": "355",
    "label": "Lion and Tortoise",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1220"
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    "id": "355",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1220",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lion and Tortoise",
    "provenance": "Delacroix Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, February 17-19, 1864, lot 474; Baron de Laage, Paris, 1864; Georges Petit [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1866, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1835",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1220",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.8,
            "height": 26.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 13/16 x W: 10 1/4 in. (19.8 x 26.1 cm)"
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    "inscriptions": "\"\"E.D.\"\" in lower left stamped in red (Lugt Suppl. ?); \"\"Eugène Delacroix\"\" in blue ink on reverse in later hand",
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