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{
    "localId": "15813",
    "label": "Cameo Portrait of the Emperor Nero",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1041"
}

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    "id": "15813",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1041",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Cameo Portrait of the Emperor Nero",
    "description": "This cameo portrait of Nero wearing a wreath is set in a plain gold ring. Emperor Nero (AD 37-68) is depicted youthful and smiling, with the dark upper layer contrasting effectively with the pale ground.During the Renaissance it was a popular test of skill to create works that looked \"antique\" as this cameo does. Similar to this cameo, Walters 42.1040 is also in the collection.",
    "provenance": "Thomas Howard, fourteenth/twenty-first Earl of Arundel, Arundel House, London, 1638, by purchase [William Petty as agent] [Arundel Collection B, no. 27]; Aletheia Talbot Howard, Arundel House, London, 1646, by bequest; Henry Frederick Howard, fifteenth/twenty-second Earl of Arundel, Arundel House, London, by 1652, by gift; Henry Howard, sixth Duke of Norfolk, Arundel House, London, 1652, by bequest; Jane Bickerton Howard, Arundel House, London, 1684, by bequest; Henry Mordaunt, second Earl of Peterborough, by 1690, by purchase; Mary Mordant, Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1697, by bequest; John Germain, Drayton House, Northamptonshire, 1705, by bequest; Elizabeth Germain, Knole House, Kent, 1718, by bequest; Mary Beauclerk Spencer, 1762, by gift; George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, ca. 1765, by gift [Marlborough no. 430]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 68, lot 430; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 76, lot 430; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "16th century (late Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1041",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "portraits"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 2,
            "height": 1.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 13/16 x W: 3/4 in. (2 x 1.9 cm)"
}

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    "med": "sardonyx, modern gold setting",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33562"
    ],
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        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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