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    "localId": "753",
    "label": "Alexander the Great Drowns the Greeks",
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    "id": "753",
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    "title": "Alexander the Great Drowns the Greeks",
    "description": "In this folio from Walters manuscript W.624, the Greeks are punished for not accepting the faith and rule of Alexander.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Zaki, 1241 AH/AD 1825-1826 [mode of acquisition unknown] [oval seal, fols. 1a, 211a]; 'abd al-raji Muhammad Shafi', 1247 AH/AD 1831-1832 [mode of acquisition unknown] [rectangular seal fols. 1a, 211a]; Muhammad 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [large oval seal with no date on fol. 211a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1597-1598 (Mughal)",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 1/4 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28.5 x 19 cm)"
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