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    "localId": "3989",
    "label": "Young Cook Caressing A Dead Bird",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1543"
}

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    "id": "3989",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1543",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Young Cook Caressing A Dead Bird",
    "description": "Perry trained in Europe, initially under Emmanuel Leutze in Düsseldorf, Germany, and then with Thomas Couture in Paris. Before opening a studio in New York in 1866, he traveled extensively and for a time served as United States Consul in Venice.This drawing was made during an 1858-1862 stay in the United States and records a typical kitchen interior in mid 19th-century America. The sentimental young cook strokes the soft feathers of a bird. The bird's eye is open, unlike the eyes of the birds placed on the table. Is the young girl bidding the bird farewell before she has to kill it?",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1543",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.6,
            "height": 11.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 1/2 x W: 4 11/16 in. (26.6 x 11.9 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signed and dated] Lower right: E.W. Perry jr 1859",
    "med": "pencil and wash on paper",
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        "4979"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2180"
    ]
}

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