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    "localId": "23947",
    "label": "Melancholia",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1447"
}

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    "id": "23947",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1447",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Melancholia",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1865, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1852-1866",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1447",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.1447_Fnt_UK.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.1,
            "height": 30.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 11/16 x W: 11 7/8 in. (22.1 x 30.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"Gavarni\"\" in brown in",
        "lower right; \"\"Mélancolie\"\" in lower left; \"\"2\"\"",
        "\"\"25\"\" in graphite",
        "verso; \"\"No.7\"\" in brown ink",
        "verso; watermarked",
        "\"\"M\"\" in large script with foliage below"
    ],
    "med": "iron gall ink with red ink heightened with white on brown, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7208"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2069"
    ]
}

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