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    "localId": "85493",
    "label": "West Indiche Paskaret…",
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    "title": "West Indiche Paskaret…",
    "description": "An exemplary print of a sea chart using the old-fashioned maritime tradition of portolan charts, which were drawn from first-hand observations by pilots, who used these outlines and then improved on the details using their memories.",
    "provenance": "W. Graham Arader III, Philadelphia [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jean and Sidney Silber, Baltimore, February 1, 1977, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 2011, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1710",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "Framed: 35 × 42 3/16 × 1 3/4 in. (88.9 × 107.2 × 4.4 cm)"
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