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{
    "localId": "20234",
    "label": "Fratricide Witnesses the Loyalty of Two Friends",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.24B"
}

{
    "id": "20234",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.24B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fratricide Witnesses the Loyalty of Two Friends",
    "description": "This illustration from Walters manuscript W.624 depicts the 10th maqala (discourse). Two men who are about to be executed are found in the lower foreground. Several men plea to the king for clemency.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Zaki, 1241 AH/AD 1825-1826 [mode of acquisition unknown] [oval seal, fols. 1a, 211a]; 'abd al-raji Muhammad Shafi', 1247 AH/AD 1831-1832 [mode of acquisition unknown] [rectangular seal fols. 1a, 211a]; Muhammad 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [large oval seal with no date on fol. 211a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1597-1598 (Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.24B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.624.24b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.5,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 1/4 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28.5 x 19 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "style": "Mughal",
    "dynasty": "Mughal Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7404",
        "7405"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2664"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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