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    "localId": "12271",
    "label": "Woman and Boy in the Snow",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1560"
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    "id": "12271",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1560",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Woman and Boy in the Snow",
    "description": "Hennessy trained at the National Academy of Design in New York. His paintings and drawings were often marked by a sense of pathos. In this scene, an impoverished mother and her son, obviously insufficiently protected from the cold, trudge along a snow-strewn street.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1560",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14,
            "height": 11
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "5 1/2 x 4 5/16 in. (14 x 11 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signed and dated] lower left: W.J. Hennessy 1859",
    "med": "pencil on paper heightened with white",
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