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{
    "localId": "30230",
    "label": "Mrs. Eliza Pierie",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.442"
}

{
    "id": "30230",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.442",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mrs. Eliza Pierie",
    "description": "The engraved inscription on the back of this miniature attributes it to Bass Otis and identifies the sitter as Eliza Pierie. An Eliza Pierie (1822-1845) was the daughter of Bass and Alice Otis according to a gravestone inscriptions in the Christ Church burial-grounds in Philadelphia.",
    "provenance": "Otis family, Philadelphia (?); A. J. Fink [date and mode of acquisition unknown, from the artist's family]; A.J. Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1810",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.442",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.442_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.442_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.442_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.3,
            "height": 3.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H excluding frame: 2 7/8 x W: 1 1/2 in. (7.3 x 3.81 cm); Framed H: 3 1/8 x W: 1 3/4 in. (7.94 x 4.45 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] Engraved on back of frame: Eliza Pierie / By / Bass Otis",
    "med": "watercolor on ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "32699"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_38.442_Back_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "70fc5ded00990ef5"
}