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    "localId": "8726",
    "label": "Tintagel on the Cornish Coast",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2642"
}

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    "id": "8726",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2642",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tintagel on the Cornish Coast",
    "description": "Richards, a Philadelphia artist, first visited Tintagel on the Cornish coast in 1878. He recorded his impressions in a notebook which he subsequently drew upon in preparing a number of oil paintings and large gouaches.Although the ruins visible on the cliffs date from the 13th century A.D., there is evidence of a sixth century substructure which lends credence to the legend that King Arthur was born on this site.",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Dorothy Low Newton, Kennebunkport, Maine [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, by gift, 1989.",
    "date": "1879",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.2642",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 57.2,
            "height": 94
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 22 1/2 × W: 37 in. (57.15 × 93.98 cm); Framed, H: 29 1/2 × W: 44 × D: 3 1/4 in. (74.9 × 111.8 × 8.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature and date] Lower left: Wm. T. Richards 1879",
    "med": "gouache over pencil on paper",
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    ],
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    ],
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        "3271"
    ]
}

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