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{
    "localId": "39169",
    "label": "Landscape with Ruins, Birds and Beasts",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1909"
}

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    "id": "39169",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1909",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Landscape with Ruins, Birds and Beasts",
    "description": "This is a typical pleasant, romanticized fantasy of ruins, birds, and deer that Hans Savery painted in Utrecht in response to the market for works by his uncle and mentor Roelandt Savery, to whom this painting was attributed before 1990.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1630s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1909",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1909_Fnt_BW_H52.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1909_Fnt_BW_H52.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1909_Fnt_BW_H52.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 51.6,
            "height": 71.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 20 5/16 x W: 28 1/16 in. (51.6 x 71.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower left: . SAV...",
    "med": "oil on panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2731"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1994"
    ]
}

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    "mediaId": "44846af8d3ac6474"
}