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    "localId": "25647",
    "label": "Tiger Watching an Elephant",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.825"
}

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    "id": "25647",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.825",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tiger Watching an Elephant",
    "description": "In this twilight scene, a tiger on the alert observes an elephant running in the background.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1857",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.825",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26,
            "height": 36.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 1/4 x W: 14 1/4 in. (26 x 36.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In dark brown watercolor at lower right corner",
        "on recto: BARYE."
    ],
    "med": "watercolor with gum heightening on rough, thick, cream wove paper",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "872",
        "2186"
    ]
}

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