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    "localId": "23636",
    "label": "Virgin and Child enthroned",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.26.63V"
}

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    "id": "23636",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.26.63V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Virgin and Child enthroned",
    "provenance": "Made for an abbey in southern Germany, probably the Benedictine house of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg [Ulrich and Afra appear in the calendar and are depicted on fol. 131v; thirteenth-century note in German, top of fol. 2r]; Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [bookplate originally on front pastedown, no longer extant];  Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode, Zeisberg sale, Wernigerode, October 10, 1854, no. 37 [no. Za51 on spine]; G. Schar [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [G. Schar 20 on fol. 1r]; Léon Gruel collection, Paris, late 19th-early 20th century [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 12th-early 13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.26.63V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.8,
            "height": 15
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 x W: 5 7/8 in. (22.8 x 15 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "ink and pigments on velvety parchment of medium thickness, well prepared but very worn from use",
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        "3673"
    ]
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