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    "localId": "8301",
    "label": "The Great Departure of the Buddha",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.119"
}

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    "id": "8301",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.119",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Great Departure of the Buddha",
    "description": "This painting depicts Gautama, the Future Buddha, leaving his palace to become an ascetic. In the upper register, gods scatter flowers.",
    "provenance": "Alexander B. Griswold, Monkton, Maryland [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1979, by gift.",
    "date": "1880-1910",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.119",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 207,
            "height": 95
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 81 1/2 x W: 37 3/8 in. (207 x 95 cm); L of wooden dowel at bottom: 44 1/8 in. (112 cm)"
}

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    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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