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    "localId": "19065",
    "label": "Calligraphy",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.181"
}

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    "id": "19065",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.181",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Calligraphy",
    "description": "An important government official and poet, Qian Feng [Ch'ien Feng] is remembered for his courage in speaking out against corruption in high places. Here, he as written that Sima Guang [Ssu-ma Kuang] (1019-1086), a Song-dynasty historian and conservative politician, had inscribed these words at the top of a mountain: \"The secret of mountain climbing is to walk slowly, so that you will not tire, and to put down your feet on level spots, so that you will not stumble. This one should know.\"",
    "provenance": "Sale, Christie's, New York, December 2, 1992, no. 64; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by purchase.",
    "date": "1740-1795 (Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.181",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 123.2,
            "height": 42
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 48 1/2 x W: 16 9/16 in. (123.2 x 42 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] 溫公嵩山題字雲登山有道徐行則不困措足於平穩之地則不跌戒之哉; [Signature] Feng; [Seal] Three seals of the artist; [Seal] one collector's seal",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2124"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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