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    "localId": "9658",
    "label": "Walking Bear",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.814"
}

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    "id": "9658",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.814",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Walking Bear",
    "description": "A North American brown bear walks through a landscape dotted with large boulders and stubby pine trees characteristic of those found in the Forest of Fontainebleau.",
    "provenance": "Charles Binder; Charles Binder Estate Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 8, 1873, lot 6; Georges Petit, Paris; William T. Walters, Baltimore, November 1875, by purchase [George A. Lucas as agent]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850s-1860s",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.814",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.814_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/ARG_37.814_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 29.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/4 x W: 11 11/16 in. (23.5 x 29.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] In red-brown watercolor at lower right",
        "on recto: BARYE; [Number] In graphite at upper left corner",
        "on verso: 124;  [Number] In graphite at lower left",
        "on verso: 11; [Watermark] Whatman Turkey Mill."
    ],
    "med": "watercolor on moderately textured, moderately thick, beige wove paper",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "2069",
        "631",
        "872",
        "906",
        "919"
    ]
}

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