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{
    "localId": "11717",
    "label": "George Washington (?)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.586"
}

{
    "id": "11717",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.586",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "George Washington (?)",
    "description": "This miniature may depict George Washington. Unusually for a miniature this portrait is painted on wood. When it entered the Fink collection it was attributed to James Peale, and was purchased from one of the artist's descendents.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Peale, before 1914, by inheritance; Ernest Lee Parker, 1932 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1932; Erskine Hewitt, 1938 [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": "1785-1815",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.586",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.586_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.586_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.586_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.9,
            "height": 10.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H excluding frame: 3 1/8 x W: 4 in. (7.94 x 10.16 cm); Framed H: 3 7/8 x W: 3 3/4 in. (9.84 x 9.53 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] On reverse: Portrait of / General George Washington / Painted by Peale",
    "med": "oil on panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6184"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2344"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_38.586_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "97d6fbb9087c1fd8"
}