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    "localId": "34504",
    "label": "Three Nuns in the Portal of a Church",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1383"
}

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    "id": "34504",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1383",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Three Nuns in the Portal of a Church",
    "description": "This painting depicts three Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in their traditional attire (worn until the 1960s). The sisters established their first mission in Baltimore in 1822. This watercolor by a French artist is not dated, but as William T. Walters puchased many works on paper while in Paris during the Civil War, it likely dates from before 1865.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown, likely before 1865]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1860",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1383",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1383_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1383_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1383_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 19.5,
            "height": 15.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 7 11/16 x W: 6 in. (19.5 x 15.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"A. Gautier\"\" in watercolor",
        "lower left; \"\"31\"\" in graphite",
        "upper right",
        "verso"
    ],
    "med": "watercolor and gouache over graphite underdrawing on slightly textured, moderately thick, beige wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4968"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2069"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_37.1383_Fnt_DD_T09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2531769995e8acec"
}