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{
    "localId": "20350",
    "label": "Benjamin Franklin",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.176"
}

{
    "id": "20350",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.176",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Benjamin Franklin",
    "description": "The signature on this miniature is difficult to read but it may be by Marie François Perier. Franklin was a popular figure in France following the American War of Independence. A similar profile portrait in pencil (although showing Franklin in spectacles) can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. It is possible both are after a print.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, by bequest, 1931.",
    "date": "1783",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.176",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_38.176_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_38.176_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_38.176_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signed and dated] lower left: M. Perier (?) / ce 4 janvier 1783.",
    "med": "Pencil on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7923"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_38.176_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "22f1438f14c1ac2e"
}