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    "localId": "2210",
    "label": "Allegory of Spring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.174"
}

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    "id": "2210",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.174",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Allegory of Spring",
    "description": "This plaque, along with its companion Allegory or Summer (44.173) were surely intended as part of a series of four plaques of The Four Seasons, a popular subject in the 1600a. A seated satyr plays a pipe, leaning against a pilaster, while a nymph reclining beside him listens. A baby faun, wielding a stick, is herding a goat. In the background are trees and bushes. In the foreground at the right is an urn.",
    "provenance": "Jacques Seligmann, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase [Emile Rey as agent]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "c. 1650-1675 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.174",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.174_Fnt_BW_H64.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_44.174_Fnt_BW_H64.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.5,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 1/8 x W: 7 1/2 in. (10.5 x 19 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] HP (linked) F.[ecit]",
    "med": "painted enamel and gold on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3672",
        "17263"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_44.174_Fnt_BW_H64.jpg",
    "mediaId": "c238720a0f57a336"
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