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    "localId": "23634",
    "label": "Muslim on Housetop at Prayer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1281"
}

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    "id": "23634",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1281",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Muslim on Housetop at Prayer",
    "description": "This watercolor was ordered directly from the artist by George Lucas on behalf of William T. Walters in 1867.",
    "provenance": "Commissioned by William T. Walters (through George Lucas as agent), Baltimore, 1867 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.[1] See Diaries of George A. Lucas, vol. 2, page 238: \"\"To see Pasini, took & paid for watercolor of prayer 150 fs.\"\" 16 April 1867.",
    "date": "1867",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1281",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "watercolors (paintings)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1281_Fnt_BW_H62.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1281_Fnt_BW_H62.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.6,
            "height": 18.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 5/16 x W: 7 1/8 in. (23.6 x 18.1 cm); Mat H: 25 × W: 19 in. (63.5 × 48.26 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] bottom left: A Pasini",
    "med": "watercolor on blued white, medium weight, slightly textured wove paper, mounted on a cream, thick, very smooth, wove paper with gilded edges",
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    ],
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        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "3391"
    ]
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_37.1281_FntCc_DD_T15-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9d346e777b53649e"
}