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    "localId": "16074",
    "label": "Portrait of a British Officer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.282"
}

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    "id": "16074",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.282",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a British Officer",
    "description": "Englehart studied briefly with Sir Joshua Reynolds, president of the Royal Academy, and then devoted himself to miniatures. In about 1795-1800, when he introduced the letter E as his signature as in this portrait, he also began to work at a larger scale than he had previously.",
    "provenance": "Abraham Jay Fink; A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1954 [A-34]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, as gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1800",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.282",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_38.282_Fnt_BW_S65.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_38.282_Fnt_BW_S65.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_38.282_Fnt_BW_S65.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.4,
            "height": 7.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 1/2 x 3 1/16 in. (6.35 x 7.78 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] At lower right side: E",
    "med": "watercolor on ivory with a gold frame",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2931"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2886",
        "3225"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_38.282_Fnt_BW_S65.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7103a78b13ae1f04"
}