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{
    "localId": "13392",
    "label": "Portrait of the Scribe Mir 'Abd Allah Katib in the Company of a Youth Burnishing Paper",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.650.187A"
}

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    "id": "13392",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.650.187A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of the Scribe Mir 'Abd Allah Katib in the Company of a Youth Burnishing Paper",
    "description": "This illustration from Walters manuscript W.650 is attributed to Nanha by Stuart C. Welch. The scribe holds a piece of paper giving his name, the place of copying (Allahabad), and the date 27 Muharram 1011 AH/AD 1602.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1011 AH/AD 1602 (Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.650.187A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_W.650.187R_OpnObv_TR_T84III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_W.650.187R_OpnObv_TR_T84III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_W.650.187R_OpnObv_TR_T84III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.5,
            "height": 20.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 3/8 x W: 8 1/16 in. (31.5 x 20.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "inscriptions": "[Transliteration] katabahu [al-mudh] nib al-haqīr 'Abd Allāh Mushkīn Qalam /1/ [gh]afara Allāh dhunūbahu wa-satara Allāh 'uyūbahu /2/ sanah 1011 /3/",
    "dynasty": "Mughal Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on biscuit-colored laid paper",
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        "19383",
        "7404"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2059",
        "2664",
        "2289"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_W.650.187R_OpnObv_TR_T84III.jpg",
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