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{
    "localId": "34401",
    "label": "Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.422"
}

{
    "id": "34401",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.422",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin",
    "description": "This plaster medallion is painted to look like terracotta. The piece has a moulded plaster frame painted gold and black.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.422",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "medallions (medals)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_27.422_Back_BW_T90.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_27.422_Back_BW_T90.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_27.422_Back_BW_T90.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Base of neck: NINI F; [Date] Illegible; [Transcription] ERIPUIT COELO FULMEN SCEPTRUMQUE TIRANNIS 1779; [Label] Paper label on back from sales catalogue",
    "med": "plaster with paint",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7165"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2205",
        "2344",
        "3097"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_27.422_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2a70af6a959d5271"
}