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    "localId": "3491",
    "label": "Free Spirits Among Streams and Mountains",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.198"
}

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    "id": "3491",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.198",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Free Spirits Among Streams and Mountains",
    "description": "When he painted this long handscroll in 1684, Wang Yuanqi [Wang Yüan-ch'i], the greatest orthodox master of the Qing [Ch'ing] dynasty, had not yet developed the style for which he is best remembered. Grounded in the lessons of his grandfather, the artist Wang Shimin [Wang Shih-min], he aimed in his own way to make a work both as weighty and as free as that which was regarded as the greatest of Chinese handscrolls: Huang Gongwang's [Huang Kung-wang's] Dwelling in the Fuchun [Fu-ch'un] Mountains of 1350.",
    "provenance": "James Freeman [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1994, by purchase.",
    "date": "1684 (Qing)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.198",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "emakimono",
        "hand scrolls"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.198_VwK_DD_T09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 14,
    "pageCount": 14,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 33,
            "height": 88.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Title panel H: 13 x W: 34 7/8 in. (33.02 x 88.58 cm);  Painted image H: 13 x W: 279 7/8 in. (33.02 x 710.88 cm); Colophon H: 13 x W: 93 13/16 in. (33.02 x 238.28 cm)Height of scroll: H: 13 3/4 in. (35 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink on paper",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "954"
    ]
}

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