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    "localId": "23520",
    "label": "Tracings After the Parthenon Frieze",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2286"
}

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    "id": "23520",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2286",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tracings After the Parthenon Frieze",
    "description": "Barye has traced the outlines of female attendants from the procession carved on the eastern frieze of the Parthenon. The artist presumably worked from an engraving or a plaster cast of the original sculptures, which are in the British Museum, London.",
    "provenance": "Mme Vildieu (born Georgine-Virginie-Henriette Barye); Fabius Frères, Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.",
    "date": "1820s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2286",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 17.8,
            "height": 29.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 x W: 11 3/4 in. (17.8 x 29.8 cm)"
}

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    "med": "pen and ink on tracing paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956"
    ]
}

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