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    "localId": "19240",
    "label": "Henry Heyward Manigault",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.486"
}

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    "id": "19240",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.486",
    "contentType": "object",
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    "title": "Henry Heyward Manigault",
    "description": "Henry Heyward Manigault (1819-1869) was a nephew of William Henry Heyward. He was the second child of Anne Manigault Heyward and Major Gabriel Henry Manigault of South Carolina. The sitter has brown hair and a beard, and wears a black suit, white shirt and black bow tie. The base of an architectural column appears at the left. He would have been 30 year-old at the time this portrait was painted.Bounetheau was active in Charleston, and a popular teacher and miniature painter.",
    "provenance": "Alice D. Barnwell, Charleston, South Carolina. Acquired by Abraham Jay Fink, Baltimore; A. J. Fink Foundation Inc., Baltimore; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.",
    "date": "1849",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.486",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.7,
            "height": 10.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H excluding frame: 5 x W: 4 in. (12.7 x 10.16 cm); Framed H: 5 3/4 x W: 4 3/4 in. (14.61 x 12.07 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signed and dated] On reverse: Henry Brintnell Bounetheau - 1849 / Charleston",
        "S.C."
    ],
    "med": "watercolor on ivory",
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    ],
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        "EAN"
    ],
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        "3225"
    ]
}

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