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    "localId": "39089",
    "label": "Calligraphy",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.149"
}

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    "id": "39089",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.149",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Calligraphy",
    "description": "The characters mean, \"Happiness is a long life of fortune and upright character.\" Such a saying is Chinese Confucian in character, and Beian has written it in ancient Chinese clerical script.",
    "provenance": "Mami Yasukochi, Tokyo; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1990, by purchase.",
    "date": "mid 19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.149",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_35.149_Fnt_BW_T93.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_35.149_Fnt_BW_T93.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_35.149_Fnt_BW_T93.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 193.5,
            "height": 44
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 76 3/16 x W: 17 5/16 in. (193.5 x 44 cm); Rod L: 20 1/16 in. (51 cm); Image H: 12 5/16 x W: 51 1/4 in. (31.2 x 130.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Beian Sangai; [Seal] Two seals below signature: Ichikawa Sangai-in and Ekito-jin; [Seal] In upper right: Beian; [Translation] Happiness is a long life of fortune and upright character",
    "med": "ink on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3837"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_35.149_Fnt_BW_T93.jpg",
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