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    "localId": "30295",
    "label": "Portrait of Governor William Moultrie",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1942"
}

{
    "id": "30295",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1942",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of Governor William Moultrie",
    "description": "This may be the original drawing for the copper engraving used as a frontispiece by Gideon Fairman in William Moultrie, \"Memoirs of the American Revolution,\" vol. I (New York, 1802).The French inscription has been identified by Professor Gilbert Chinard and Mr. Stewart W. Jackson as the handwriting of Michelange Bernard de Mangourit (1752-1829), who was appointed French consul at Charlston in 1792 and who seems to have remained there until 1795 or 1796.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [in 5 West Mount Vernon Place].",
    "date": "1802",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1942",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings",
        "drawings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1942_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1942_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1942_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.7,
            "height": 9.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H of image: 5 × W: 3 7/8 in. (12.7 × 9.8 cm); H of paper: 7 1/4 × W: 5 5/8 in. (18.42 × 14.29 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature and date] Lower left",
        "around edge of portrait oval: Charles Fraser - So. Carolina 1802; [Inscription] Bottom center: His Excellcy William Moultrie Late Governor of the State of S. Carolina / Major General in the American Revolutionary War; [Inscription] Bottom center",
        "attributed to Michelange Bernard de Mangourit (1752-1829)",
        "French consul at Charlston",
        "SC: je suis fure [sic] destitué en 1793; il m’offrit une de ses terres pour azyle: Toujours dans mon coeur!"
    ],
    "med": "India-ink wash, with white on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2795"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2931"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_37.1942_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8f38fd8f27a91dec"
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