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    "localId": "20838",
    "label": "Venice, the Grand Canal at Night",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1571"
}

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    "id": "20838",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1571",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Venice, the Grand Canal at Night",
    "description": "Perry, a Boston painter, trained abroad in Düsseldorf and Paris. He resided in Rome between 1856 and 1858 and served as the U.S. Consul in Venice from 1862 to 1866.Looking across the Grand Canal one sees the cupola of the church of Santa Maria della Salute.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1858 or 1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1571",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.1,
            "height": 16.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 3/8 × W: 6 3/8 in. (11.1 × 16.2 cm); Mat Size H: 14 1/4 × W: 19 1/4 in. (36.2 × 48.9 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Lower left: E.W. Perry; [Date] Lower left",
        "cut off but appears to be '58 or '59"
    ],
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    ],
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    ],
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        "3271"
    ]
}

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