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{
    "localId": "29548",
    "label": "Mountain Landscape in Song Dynasty Style",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.32"
}

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    "id": "29548",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.32",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mountain Landscape in Song Dynasty Style",
    "description": "The 11th-century Song masters developed techniques to depict mountains, trees, and mists in an essentially realistic fashion. The painter of this work borrows these techniques to create a world with a somewhat fantastic character.Spurious signature of Wen Chia (1501-83).",
    "provenance": "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 213]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "17th century (Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.32",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_35.32_Fnt_BW_C37.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_35.32_Fnt_BW_C37.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_35.32_Fnt_BW_C37.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 190.8,
            "height": 55.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 75 1/8 x W: 21 3/4 in. (190.8 x 55.2 cm); W of scroll only, no knobs: 29 11/16 in. (75.4 cm); Painted image H: 75 11/16 x W: 21 5/8 in. (192.2 x 55 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription]萬曆六年歲次戊寅夏日倣宋人筆法 茂苑文嘉; [Seal] At top; [Signature] Original signature at left is rubbed out",
    "med": "ink and colors on silk mounted on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2895"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "d7f29772144ccc12"
}