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    "localId": "28374",
    "label": "Prayer on the Housetop",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.913"
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    "id": "28374",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.913",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Prayer on the Housetop",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, July 25, 1864, by commission; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1864",
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 14 x W: 9 7/8 in. (35.5 x 25.1 cm); Mat H: 19 1/4 × W: 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)"
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    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In black crayon in lower right: Bida; [Inscription] Stenciled on back of frame: Dutocq et Fernandez",
        "Rue du Bac 42",
        "Paris"
    ],
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    ]
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