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{
    "localId": "4846",
    "label": "Illuminated Tailpiece with a Palette and Brushes for William T. Walters' Drawings Album \"\"Original Sketches\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1581"
}

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    "id": "4846",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1581",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Tailpiece with a Palette and Brushes for William T. Walters' Drawings Album \"\"Original Sketches\"\"",
    "description": "This tailpiece was specially commissioned for one of William T. Walters' albums of drawings. It shows a palette and brushes covered by a spider's web, the spider is suspended from a brush below. Under this is the word \"finis,\" Latin for \"end.\" The seemingly abandoned pallette perhaps suggests the mortality of the artist. This would echo a second tailpiece by the same artist which shows a skull, and is inscribed \"emigravit,\" meaning \"departed.\"",
    "provenance": "Commissioned by William T. Walters, Baltimore, by 1859; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1581",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "watercolors (paintings)",
        "tailpieces"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1581_Fnt_BW_H79.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1581_Fnt_BW_H79.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1581_Fnt_BW_H79.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18.6,
            "height": 24.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 5/16 × W: 9 1/2 in. (18.57 × 24.13 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Initialed] CMB [Inscribed] below center: FINIS",
    "med": "watercolor on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33560"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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