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    "localId": "35614",
    "label": "Self-Portrait",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.68"
}

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    "id": "35614",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.68",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Self-Portrait",
    "description": "Because William T. Walters had once provided him with financial assistance, Elliott presented this self-portrait to him with the accompanying note:\"You will gratify me by accepting the accompanying portrait of myself, as a slight testimonial of my esteem for you, and I also wish to express my admiration for your manly, consistent, and liberal support of American art.\"Elliott also apparently painted a portrait of Walters, but the whereabouts of this work is currently unknown.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1860, by gift [from the artist]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1860",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.68",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.68_Fnt_BW_H73.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.68_Fnt_BW_H73.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.68_Fnt_BW_H73.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 68.5,
            "height": 56
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 26 15/16 x W: 22 1/16 in. (68.5 x 56 cm); Framed H: 34 1/2 x W: 29 1/2 x D: 3 3/4 in. (87.6 x 74.9 x 9.5 cm)"
}

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    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4578"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2728",
        "3300"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_37.68_Fnt_BW_H73.jpg",
    "mediaId": "4464b688c674fc20"
}