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{
    "localId": "98165",
    "label": "Letter & Envelope, from Catherine the Great to her Cousin, Prince Xavier of Saxony",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "correspondence",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/15.35.53"
}

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    "id": "98165",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/15.35.53",
    "contentType": "correspondence",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Letter & Envelope, from Catherine the Great to her Cousin, Prince Xavier of Saxony",
    "description": "Affectionate letter from Catherine the Great to her cousin, Prince Xavier of Saxony, written in French while she was still Empress Consort.",
    "provenance": "Purchased (?) by Alexandre Polovtsoff (Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Polovtsov), Paris; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930 [1]; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] Page 56, Book 2 of the Anderson Journals: \"\"Bought on the 10th of July (1930) from M. Polovtsoff, 184, Boulevard Haussmann Paris.\"\" The Anderson Journals are a two volume accounting of information relating to activities in the Walters Art Gallery from the years 1908 to 1932. Mr. James C. Anderson was Henry Walter's employee, first as an engineer, and then as Superintendent of the gallery and collections.",
    "date": "April 12, 1762",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/15.35.53",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "envelopes"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_15.35.53_BackRel_DD_T17-tms.jpg",
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    "imageCount": 5,
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    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23,
            "height": 36.1
        }
    ],
    "med": "ink on paper",
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    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/16 × W open: 14 3/16 in. (23 × 36.1 cm); H: 9 1/16 × W closed: 7 1/8 in. (23 × 18.1 cm); H envelope: 3 3/4 × W: 4 9/16 in. (9.5 × 11.6 cm)"
}

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