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    "localId": "30899",
    "label": "Elephants in Water",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.819"
}

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    "id": "30899",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.819",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Elephants in Water",
    "description": "In a broad watery expanse, an elephant approaches while three others wade in the background.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.819",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20,
            "height": 29.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 7/8 x W: 11 3/4 in. (20 x 29.8 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In lower right in red watercolor: BARYE; [Number] In graphite on verso: 29 39",
        "19 6",
        "32."
    ],
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    ],
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    ],
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        "2069",
        "631",
        "432",
        "3191"
    ]
}

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