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    "localId": "17267",
    "label": "Chapel of St. Mary and St. Joseph, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1943"
}

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    "id": "17267",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1943",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Chapel of St. Mary and St. Joseph, St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore",
    "description": "A black and white drawing of a Baltimore chapel, this image includes a tree to the right and a tiny woman and child walking up the church steps.Alexandre Vattemare (1796-1864), the French bibliophile and collector, visited Baltimore in 1840 and presumably received this adn the following drawing from Long at that time. In another hand is written: \"No. 513 of Catalogue by Robt. Cary Long - not by Latrobe.\"",
    "provenance": "Alexandre Vattemare, Philadelphia, probably 1840 [mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inhertiance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1840",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1943",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "drawings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1943_Fnt_BW_H41.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1943_Fnt_BW_H41.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.6,
            "height": 7.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 3/16 x W: 2 7/8 in. (10.6 x 7.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Description] clockwise around the image in ink: The façade designed and built in by Max..an Godefroy. Arch't/ Alexandre Vattemare Esq. from Robt. Cary Long. The spire designed and built in 1840 by Robt. Cary Long",
        "Archt/ Chapel of St. Mary + St. Joseph/ St. Mary's Seminary/ Baltimore; [Number] in pencil",
        "upper right: N/ 287"
    ],
    "med": "pencil on white paper mounted on heavy white paper with ink inscriptions",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3784"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "616"
    ]
}

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