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    "localId": "5395",
    "label": "The Frigate Congress in the Bay of Naples",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2567"
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    "id": "5395",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2567",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Frigate Congress in the Bay of Naples",
    "description": "Two American frigates are shown becalmed in the Bay of Naples. In the background rises Mount Vesuvius. In its direct approach this ship-portrait, presumably of the U.S. frigate \"Congress,\" is characteristic of works executed in both oil and gouache by numerous Neapolitan artists for foreign visitors in the 19th century.",
    "provenance": "Clintonia Wright, wife of Lieutenant May [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Anne Gordon Boyce Baldwin, by inheritance [passed down four generations from Clintonia Wright]; Walters Art Museum, April 1979, by gift.",
    "date": "1857",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2567",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 46.4,
            "height": 65.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 18 1/4 × W: 25 3/4 in. (46.4 × 65.4 cm); Framed: H: 23 × W: 30 1/2 × D: 2 1/2 in. (58.4 × 77.5 × 6.4 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right: Tom. so De Simone 1857",
    "RelatedObjects": 11686,
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