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    "localId": "6778",
    "label": "Arab Mendicant in Meditation",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1336"
}

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    "id": "6778",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1336",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Arab Mendicant in Meditation",
    "description": "In this work, the artist depicts the figure in such a way that most of his face is obscured, creating a sense of mystery. Everything we know about the character of this man is expressed though his posture, clothes, and objects, like his bowl containing a few coins. Very little is known about Camino’s training; he visited Algeria in the early 1850s, which inspired the art he made in the decades that followed.",
    "provenance": "Purchased by William T. Walters, Baltimore; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1860",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1336",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1336_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1336_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_37.1336_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.5,
            "height": 21
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 3/8 x W: 8 1/4 in. (31.5 x 21 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] In watercolor at lower right: C. Camino; [Number] In graphite on verso: 55; [Watermark] Partially visible: J Whatman",
    "med": "watercolor over traces of graphite on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4750"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2069",
        "3500"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_37.1336_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f1259a5223d8e208"
}