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    "localId": "37483",
    "label": "John",
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    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1969"
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    "id": "37483",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "John",
    "description": "Strother, a native of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), trained in New York and later in France and Italy. Returning to America in 1844, he spent a winter in Baltimore, and then settled in Martinsburg. Strother specialized in illustrations for books and magazines, most notably \"Harper's Monthly.\"",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1969",
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 3/16 x W: 3 1/4 in. (13.1 x 8.3 cm)"
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    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] Bottom center: John / March 17th",
        "1859"
    ],
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