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    "localId": "12199",
    "label": "Initial C with Bust of Isaiah",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.25.164V"
}

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    "id": "12199",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.25.164V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Initial C with Bust of Isaiah",
    "provenance": "Created for Augustinian or Premonstratensian use (?), likely Rheinland, late 12th or early 13th century. Leander van Ess, Darmstadt, after 1800. Purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps [1792-1872], 1824 [1]; Phillipps' Sale, London, either 1911, no. 868, or 1913, no. 1021. Léon Gruel, Paris [2]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] fol. 1r - rampant lion stamp and inscription: \"\"Sir T.P./Middle Hill 441\"\"[2] no. 924 on front pastedown",
    "date": "late 12th-early 13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.25.164V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.3,
            "height": 13.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 3/8 x W: 5 7/16 in. (21.3 x 13.8 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "ink, paint and gold on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "96"
    ]
}

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