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    "localId": "35770",
    "label": "Fishing Alone on a Cold River",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.134"
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    "id": "35770",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.134",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fishing Alone on a Cold River",
    "description": "This winter scene shows Chikuto at his most restrained, foregoing the rhythmic and compositional complexities of his most ambitious paintings. It is a distillation, a work in which the minimal means are essential to the mood.Chikuto took classical painting as his model. The composition--nearby trees, water, distant mountain--and the spare brushwork deliberately evoke paintings by the 14th-century Chinese master Ni Tsan. They are also intended to convey the feeling of winter.",
    "provenance": "Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.",
    "date": "1846 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.134",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 131.8,
            "height": 46.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Image H: 51 7/8 x W: 18 1/4 in. (131.8 x 46.3 cm); Overall H: 30 1/2 x W: 25 1/2 in. (77.47 x 64.77 cm); W of scroll only: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm)"
}

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    ],
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