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    "localId": "7896",
    "label": "News from Afar",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.183"
}

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    "id": "7896",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.183",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "News from Afar",
    "description": "Stevens depicted domestic interiors, in which he meticulously recorded the latest fashions in dress and furnishings. Here, a young woman, who has apparently just received news from a loved one far away, clutches at her heart.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1878 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 1860s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.183",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 62.7,
            "height": 40.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 24 11/16 x W: 15 15/16 in. (62.7 x 40.5 cm); Framed without buildup H: 37 1/8 × W: 28 9/16 × D: 4 1/2 in. (94.3 × 72.6 × 11.5 cm); Framed with buildup D: 6 1/8 in. (15.5 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Lower right: Alfred Stevens; [Initials] Painted on reverse of canvas in red letters: A.S",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "2074",
        "2429",
        "2434",
        "2674"
    ]
}

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