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    "localId": "17213",
    "label": "Dr. Charles Gordon Patterson",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.493"
}

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    "id": "17213",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.493",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dr. Charles Gordon Patterson",
    "description": "Left profile portrait of a man identified in the engraved inscription on the reverse as Dr. Charles Gordon Patterson wearing a black coat, high black collar, and white ruffled jabot. The miniature is in a Tiffany frame. The frame and inscription match that of WAM 38.490. This may depict the sitter's wife.Lambdin studied with Thomas Wilcocks Sully (1811-1847), the renowned portraitist in Philadelphia, and established himself as a miniaturist in the same city.",
    "provenance": "A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown, perhaps from the collection of Albert Rosenthal]; A.J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.",
    "date": "1826",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.493",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.493_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.493_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.9,
            "height": 6.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H excluding frame: 3 1/2 x W: 2 5/8 in. (8.89 x 6.67 cm); Framed H: 3 3/4 x W: 3 in. (9.53 x 7.62 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signed] Lower right",
        "front: L.R.; [Inscription] Engraved on back of frame: Charles Gordon Patterson",
        "M.D. / Son Of / Jehu and Hanna Patterson / Born September 4th",
        "1796 / Died February 18th",
        "1835 / Practiced his profession at  / Plattsburght",
        "Burlington Co. New Jersey / and / died there / From life at the age of 30"
    ],
    "med": "watercolor on ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5702",
        "3561"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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