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    "localId": "18937",
    "label": "Recumbent Sphinx",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2482"
}

{
    "id": "18937",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2482",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Recumbent Sphinx",
    "description": "The Great Sphinx at Giza became a popular subject when Egyptomania swept Europe in the decades following Napoleon's military expedition to Egypt (1798-99).",
    "provenance": "Dr. Eleanor P. Spencer, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1970, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1830",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2482",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.2482_Fnt_BW_H70.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.4,
            "height": 21.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 1/2 x 8 9/16 in. (11.4 x 21.8 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Empire",
    "med": "bronze, marble",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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