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    "localId": "12357",
    "label": "The Poet",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1539"
}

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    "id": "12357",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1539",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Poet",
    "description": "Dated March 8, 1815, Leslie's holograph written in the form of an IOU gently mocks the high-flown sentiments of this genre and draws on a long history of satirical depictions of impoverished poets. This holograph is likely to have come into the Walters' collection from that of another Baltimore collector, Robert Gilmor. Gilmor published a catalogue of his collection that he described as \"for the use of my friends, that they might know what autographs I had, & consequently what I had not, & which when in their honor to supply would be acceptable.\"",
    "provenance": "Robert Gilmor, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1815",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1539",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.2,
            "height": 20.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/2 x W: 8 in. (24.2 x 20.3 cm)"
}

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    ],
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        "2830",
        "2863"
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}

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