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    "localId": "25222",
    "label": "Henry Clay and his Wife, Lucretia Hart Clay",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.40"
}

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    "id": "25222",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.40",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Henry Clay and his Wife, Lucretia Hart Clay",
    "description": "These two miniatures in watercolor on ivory depict Henry Clay (1777-1852), statesman and orator, and his wife Lucretia Hart Clay (1781-1864) (born in Hagerstown, Maryland). The paintings are mounted in a gold locket, the edge of which is engraved with the dedication: \"Henry Clay to James Calwel.\"",
    "provenance": "William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1840",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.40",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Miniatures",
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] On frame: \"\"Henry Clay to James Calwel\"\"",
    "med": "watercolor on ivory",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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