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{
    "localId": "33849",
    "label": "Portrait of a Ruler",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.889"
}

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    "id": "33849",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.889",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a Ruler",
    "description": "The rich purple robe, brocaded sash, pearls, and emeralds that this figure wears proclaim his elite status. His plumed headdress and the nimbus that surrounds his profile mark him as a ruler. Holding a flower and resting against an orange bolster, he sits in leisure. While the trees behind him suggest a garden setting, the artist has painted the surroundings rather sparsely, focusing attention on the ruler. The dramatic, impressionistic sky suggests the painting’s origin in the Deccan (a region in south-central India), probably in or around the city of Hyderabad.",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2001, by gift.",
    "date": "1111-1163 AH/AD 1700-1750",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.889",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_W.889_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_W.889_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_W.889_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.5,
            "height": 11.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 7/8 x W: 4 1/2 in. (22.5 x 11.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on paper mounted on pasteboard",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "INT",
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2071"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/ARG_W.889_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "mediaId": "327df838a6483aef"
}