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    "localId": "30616",
    "label": "The Plains of Hungary",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.76"
}

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    "id": "30616",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.76",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Plains of Hungary",
    "description": "A peasant standing on a heavily laden, four-wheeled cart, stares forlornly across the empty landscape. The cart, drawn by a troika of horses, appears to be thoroughly mired in mud. In this barren scene with its glowering sky and leaden atmosphere, the artist conveys a remarkable sense of desolation.",
    "provenance": "William Schaus, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); The John Wolfe Sale, New York, no. 39, April 6, 1882; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore, 1882, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.76",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 120.5,
            "height": 201
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 47 7/16 x W: 79 1/8 in. (120.5 x 201 cm); Framed H: 68 9/16 × W: 100 3/16 × D: 7 7/8 in. (174.1 × 254.5 × 20 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right: Ad. Schreyer",
    "med": "oil on canvas",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5480"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2323"
    ]
}

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