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    "localId": "35928",
    "label": "Lady Writing Poetry",
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    "dtoType": "drawing",
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    "id": "35928",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lady Writing Poetry",
    "description": "The artist writes at upper left:\t                  Whistle of the wind stirs falling leaves\tOver which sprinkle a few drops of rain.\tThe heart is divided: one half for poetry\tAnother half for melancholy.",
    "provenance": "Xu Hongting [Hsü Hung-t'ing] [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Liu Song-bu [Liu Sung-pu], Shanghai [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Panama Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, China Pavilion, 1915 [no. 285]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1860-1880",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.101F",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "folios (leaves)",
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        "paintings"
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    "dimensions": [
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 15 5/16 x W: 15 1/8 in. (38.9 x 38.4 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Chinese",
    "inscriptions": "[Translation] At upper left: Whistle of the wind stirs falling leaves / Over which sprinkle a few drops of rain. / The heart is divided: one half for poetry / Another half for melancholy.",
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and color on paper mounted on cloth",
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    ],
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