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    "localId": "22471",
    "label": "James Abbott McNeill Whistler",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.458"
}

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    "id": "22471",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.458",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "James Abbott McNeill Whistler",
    "description": "Plaquette commemorating the collective exhibition of Whistler's works in Boston, London and Paris, 1905. The obverse shows Whistler at three-quarter length facing left, with a butterfly device. The reverse is inscribed with the quote \"MESSIEURS LES ENNEMIS!\" with a peacock and second butterfly. This plaque was exhibited at the Grolier Club in 1907.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1904, by purchase [from the St. Louis World's Fair]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1905",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.458",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Coins & Medals",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_59.458_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.5,
            "height": 8.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 9/16 x W: 3 1/2 in. (6.5 x 8.9 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] V.D. BRENNER; [Inscribed] Obverse: JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER / PAINTER ETCHER / AVTHOR Reverse: \"\"MESSIEURS LES ENNEMIS!\"\" [Stamped] On edge: Cornucopia of Paris Mint",
    "med": "bronze",
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        "6428"
    ],
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        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "484"
    ]
}

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