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    "localId": "16797",
    "label": "The Waning Honeymoon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.129"
}

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    "id": "16797",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.129",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Waning Honeymoon",
    "description": "Boughton was the son of a Norwich farmer who was taken to America while still an infant. He initially opened a studio in Albany, New York, listing himself as a landscape painter. He eventually settled in London where he produced historical genre scenes, many of which were set in New England. This painting is set in the English Regency period. A young couple is seated at the fork of diverging paths. As noted by the artist, this is an ominous sign for their furture:\"A young pair are seated under a tree- late autumn, the big leaves all about- he is reading a book and carelessly caressing his dog; and she is pouting prettily, but thinking no pretty thoughts of him. (Excerpt from a now unlocated letter from Boughton to W. T. Walters reproduced in the early Walters catalogues).",
    "provenance": "Purchased by William T. Walters from the artist, Baltimore, ca. 1878; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1878",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.129",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.129_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 50.8,
            "height": 76.4,
            "depth": 2.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 20 × W: 30 1/16 × D: 1 1/8 in. (50.8 × 76.36 × 2.86 cm); Framed H: 33 3/4 × W: 44 3/4 × D: 5 5/8 in. (85.73 × 113.67 × 14.29 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower left: 18 G. H. Boughton 78",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "2461",
        "2889",
        "3300"
    ]
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