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{
    "localId": "11499",
    "label": "Major General Henry Wager Halleck",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.489"
}

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    "id": "11499",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.489",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Major General Henry Wager Halleck",
    "description": "In 1862, President Lincoln appointed Halleck \"general-in-chief of all U.S. land forces\"-the liaison between the president and the forces in the field. Acquaintances recalled Halleck as \"a regimental clerk with the personality of a cold muffin.\" Ritchie, a Scottish-born artist, was known chiefly for his prints.",
    "provenance": "Jacob A. Rosenfield, Chicago [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A.J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1865",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.489",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.489_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.489_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.489_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall (excluding frame) H: 3 3/8 × W: 2 9/16 in. (8.6 × 6.5 cm)Framed H: 5 13/16 × W: 4 13/16 × D: 13/16 in. (14.7 × 12.3 × 2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signed] Right: A.H. Ritchie; [Inscription] On back of frame: General Halleck / Of the Civil War / Painted on ivory / A. Ritchie / About 1865",
    "med": "watercolor on ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2965"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_38.489_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "68c93e38a423a0f1"
}