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{
    "localId": "8957",
    "label": "The Ninth Plague of Egypt: Darkness (Exodus 10:22-23)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.8R"
}

{
    "id": "8957",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.8R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Ninth Plague of Egypt: Darkness (Exodus 10:22-23)",
    "description": "This page from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts a scene from Exodus, in which God rained plagues upon Egypt. The Lord told Moses (shown horned here as a sign of his encounter with divinity) to stretch forth his hand that a darkness might be placed over Egypt, a darkness that could be felt. Moses did so, and a darkness fell over the land for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they dwelt. Yet still the Pharaoh would not let the Israelites leave Egypt.",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1250 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.8R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.8r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.8r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.8r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 13.2,
            "height": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 3/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (13.2 x 9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] The ninth plague was darkness",
        "so that no one could see another; [Transliteration] le nefime fu tenbrur q[ue] nul ne vit autre."
    ],
    "med": "ink and pigment on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3408",
        "3408"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "29"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.106.8r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "347fc1dc474d886b"
}