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    "localId": "4856",
    "label": "Python Swallowing a Roe-Deer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.835"
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    "id": "4856",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.835",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Python Swallowing a Roe-Deer",
    "description": "Although the pythons in the Jardin des Plantes were fed only small rodents, Barye was intrigued with literary accounts of these snakes swallowing much larger mammals.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, May 7, 1883 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 563.",
    "date": "ca. 1840s",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/2 x W: 12 5/8 in. (21.6 x 32.1 cm)"
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    "inscriptions": [
        "[Number] In graphite at lower left corner",
        "on verso: 18."
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        "631",
        "1993",
        "404"
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