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    "localId": "25549",
    "label": "The Great Falls of the Blackwater, Tucker County, Virginia",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1580"
}

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    "id": "25549",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1580",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Great Falls of the Blackwater, Tucker County, Virginia",
    "description": "Little is known about the artist Edward G. McDowell, but he exhibited at the Maryland Historical Society in 1858 and specialized in landscapes. The title of this wash drawing is inscribed on the reverse, with the additional information that the Falls are \"63 [feet] in height - perpendicular.\"",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1880",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1580",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 24.7,
            "height": 12.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 3/4 x W: 5 1/16 in. (24.7 x 12.9 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature and date] Lower right: E.G. McDowell 1880; [Inscription] Verso: 63 [feet] in height - perpendicular",
    "med": "wash drawing heightened with white",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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