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{
    "localId": "1616",
    "label": "Samson Firing the Grain of the Philistines",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.342"
}

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    "id": "1616",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Samson Firing the Grain of the Philistines",
    "description": "Samson is represented as a hero, clothed in a Roman cuirass and buskins. He holds in his right hand the staff of a flaming torch, while with his left he applies a lighted taper to the standing grain. Near him a fox, twisting its body, also sets fire to the wheat with a brand attached to its tail. In the left background a village is ablaze.",
    "provenance": "Sale, Christie's, London, December 8, 1910, no. 129; George Robinson Harding, London, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1525-1575 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.342",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "plaques"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.342_Fnt_BW_H65.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.3,
            "height": 10
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/2 x W: 3 15/16 in. (6.3 x 10 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamel on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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