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{
    "localId": "36621",
    "label": "Roosters, Chicks, and Morning Glories",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.132"
}

{
    "id": "36621",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.132",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Roosters, Chicks, and Morning Glories",
    "description": "This painting is intended to evoke the sorrowful bliss of lovers' separation: at dawn, morning glories bloom, the cock crows, and lovers must part. The subject matter was traditional, but Watanabe Seitei--one of the first Japanese artists to visit Europe--traveled to Paris in 1878 and was influenced by the way European watercolorists used color.",
    "provenance": "T. Yamazoe, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.",
    "date": "ca. 1890-1900 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.132",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_35.132_Fnt_TR_T91III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_35.132_Fnt_TR_T91III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_35.132_Fnt_TR_T91III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 124.3,
            "height": 48.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painting H: 48 15/16 x W: 19 3/16 in. (124.3 x 48.8 cm); Mounting H: 88 1/4 x W: 24 3/4 in. (224.16 x 62.87 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Seitei; [Seal] Seitei; [Seal] Two of the artist's seals woven into the fabric design used in the fabric mounts at top and bottom",
    "med": "ink and color on silk",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2673",
        "35074"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2065",
        "2249"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_35.132_Fnt_TR_T91III.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8c99047e1259109f"
}