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    "localId": "9061",
    "label": "Spring Morning in the Han Palace",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.48"
}

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    "id": "9061",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.48",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Spring Morning in the Han Palace",
    "description": "This is a copy of a famous handscroll (in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan) by the Ming-dynasty artist Qiu Ying [Ch'iu Ying]. It depicts imperial life at its most idyllic. During the years of the Qing [Ch'ing] dynasty, copies of Qiu Ying's painting were popular because they were an excellent guide to elegant behavior.",
    "provenance": "Panama-Pacific International Exposition, China Pavilion, San Francisco, 1915 [no. 341]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1915, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd half 17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.48",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "emakimono",
        "handscrolls"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.48_VwC_DD_T08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.48_VwC_DD_T08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_35.48_VwC_DD_T08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 10,
    "pageCount": 10,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 35.5,
            "height": 492.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall H: 14 × W: 193 15/16 in. (35.5 × 492.6 cm); Image H: 12 1/4 × W: 187 9/16 in. (31.1 × 476.4 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] At end; [Seal] At end",
        "faded"
    ],
    "dynasty": "Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and color on silk with ivory jiku",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3848"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "CHN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3424"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "4a96abaa09aa877c"
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