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    "localId": "9577",
    "label": "Toby Weller",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1583"
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    "id": "9577",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Toby Weller",
    "description": "Darley, a noted American illustrator, shows a stagecoach driver relaxing and enjoying his pipe. Toby Weller was a character in Charles Dickens' \"The Pickwick Papers,\" first published in 1836/1837.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1888",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1583",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
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            "width": 50.8,
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    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature and date] Lower left: F.O.C. Darley 1888; [Inscription] Verso:  The property of Mr. F.O.C. Darley; [Label] The Pickwick Papers",
        "Hurd and Houghton Edition",
        "1866",
        "Ch. XX",
        "Scene in the Inn",
        "Magpie and Stump. Toby Weller",
        "stage driver in one of the boxes."
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    ],
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        "2180"
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