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{
    "localId": "8324",
    "label": "Illuminated Tailpiece with Thistle and a Skull for William T. Walters' Drawing Album \"\"Original Sketches\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1948"
}

{
    "id": "8324",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1948",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Tailpiece with Thistle and a Skull for William T. Walters' Drawing Album \"\"Original Sketches\"\"",
    "description": "This drawing was specially commissioned from an as yet unidentified artist as the tailpiece to one of William T. Walters' albums of drawings. It shows a thistle growing up through the eye of a skull. The word \"emigravit\" appears below on a scroll. This is Latin for \"departed,\" a word sometimes chosen for gravestone inscriptions. The thistle down blowing away in the wind is also a kind of momento mori.",
    "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/37.1948",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "watercolors (paintings)",
        "tailpieces"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1948_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1948_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1948_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.4,
            "height": 15.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/16 × W: 6 in. (20.4 × 15.3 cm); Paper support H: 9 1/4 × W: 7 1/4 in. (23.5 × 18.4 cm); Mat H 19 1/4 × W: 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Initialed and dated on palette] 18 CMB 59; [Inscribed] EMIGRAVIT",
    "RelatedObjects": 33038,
    "med": "Watercolor on yellow paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33560"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3271"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_37.1948_NF_H76-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "b10bb6ec4cff2140"
}