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    "localId": "17314",
    "label": "Scroll Painting with Sparrows, Flowering Plants, and Rock",
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    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.135"
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    "id": "17314",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.135",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Scroll Painting with Sparrows, Flowering Plants, and Rock",
    "description": "Taking as his models Chinese bird-and-flower paintings, Baiitsu turned out countless variations, never lacking fresh inspiration. He was seventy when he painted this hanging scroll.",
    "provenance": "Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.",
    "date": "1853 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.135",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 132,
            "height": 25
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 51 15/16 x W: 9 13/16 in. (132 x 25 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Baiitsuryo; [Seal] Baiitsu; [Seal] Ryo-in; [Inscription] The name of the artist's painting studio where he painted this in the summer of 1853; [Signature] On box: Chikka Sanjin (the painter Hirao Chikka) in 1937",
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    ],
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