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    "localId": "7585",
    "label": "A Conversation",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "print",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.98"
}

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    "id": "7585",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.98",
    "contentType": "print",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "A Conversation",
    "description": "The play depicted in this print has not yet been identified, but the two actors here could be husband and wife, or innkeeper and guest. The double-portrait format is unusual; Hirosada's half-length portraits (\"okubi-e\") usually feature just an individual actor.",
    "provenance": "Justine Lewis Keidel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1850-1855 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.98",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "woodblock prints"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 18
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in. (23.5 x 18 cm)",
    "style": "Osaka School"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Hirosada",
    "med": "mulberry paper, color, ink",
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        "6406"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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