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    "localId": "2883",
    "label": "Soldier and Officer Reading",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1250"
}

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    "id": "2883",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1250",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Soldier and Officer Reading",
    "description": "On the basis of the monogram and its military subject matter this drawing has been attributed to Wilhelm Camphausen, a popular academic painter of military and genre scenes, who was also a caricaturist and illustrator. He was a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy and a member of the academies in Berlin and Vienna.",
    "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",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1250",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1250_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1250_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 14.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 5/8 in. (21 x 14.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Lower right",
        "in monogram: CW 58"
    ],
    "med": "pencil on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33472"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "9a92b45a6b40c2c4"
}