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{
    "localId": "13523",
    "label": "Album of Landscapes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.208"
}

{
    "id": "13523",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.208",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Album of Landscapes",
    "description": "Now detached, these four leaves were originally joined together. They were to be looked at one by one, like pages in a book.A leading artist of Anhui province, Zha Shibiao [Cha Shih-piao] was an old man when he painted these leaves. For him, as for other Chinese painters, nature was a refuge from political strife.",
    "provenance": "Fine Chinese Paintings, Calligraphy and Rubbings Sale (8474), Christie's, New York, September 18, 1996, lot no. 179; Walters Art Museum, 1996, by purchase.",
    "date": "ca. 1687 (Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.208",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "albums (books)",
        "paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.208_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.208_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.208_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 38,
            "height": 27.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 15/16 x W: 10 13/16 in. (38 x 27.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "See individual records. Each leaf inscribed and signed.  The final leaf (D) is inscribed: \"\"This is my brushwork of ten years ago.  Now it is 'ding chou' year of the Kangxi ete (1697).  Shibiao at the age of eighty-three.\"\"  Each leaf is stamped with the seal of the artist: Zha Shi Biao or Zha Er Zhan.",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "34305",
        "18232",
        "20734",
        "16831",
        "97036"
    ],
    "med": "ink on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6924"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_35.208_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "6cf686e93ea00fb9"
}