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    "localId": "10380",
    "label": "Heads and Figures of Various Types of People",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1963"
}

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    "id": "10380",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1963",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Heads and Figures of Various Types of People",
    "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. This illustration shows an interest in physiognomy and phrenology: reading character types through variations in facial features, such as red noses (indicating fondness for drink).",
    "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/37.1963",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "drawings (visual works)"
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.1,
            "height": 21.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 5 9/16 x 8 5/16 in. (14.1 x 21.1 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Initialed] lower right: J.McL.",
    "med": "pen and ink on paper",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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