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    "localId": "14290",
    "label": "Initial D with Madonna and Child",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.185.15R"
}

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    "id": "14290",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.185.15R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Initial D with Madonna and Child",
    "provenance": "Produced for unidentified patrons in the early 15th century who were originally represented flanking the full-page miniature of the Crucifixion (fol. 72v) but later painted over (calendar for the Use of Utrecht, localizing the place of production of the book); Franchoise de Doffinnes, Monchy Breton near St. Omer, 16th century [ownership note dated 1584, fol. 283v; additional notes regarding the Doffinnes family from 1520-1637, fols. 278v-279v, 283r]; Gruel and Engelmann, Paris, [collection no. 1018], before 1909 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Librairie Theophile Belin, Paris, 1909 [Catalog Manuscrits avec miniature..., pp. 5-7, no.4] [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, by 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1st quarter 15th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.185.15R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.6,
            "height": 9.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 15/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (12.6 x 9.6 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic~International Gothic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on thin, well-finished cream-colored parchment",
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        "7853",
        "7854"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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