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{
    "localId": "26766",
    "label": "Jacob Sends Joseph to his Brothers (Genesis 37:13-14)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.14R"
}

{
    "id": "26766",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.14R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Jacob Sends Joseph to his Brothers (Genesis 37:13-14)",
    "description": "In this page from Walters manuscript W.106 Joseph, the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons was a dreamer, beloved by his father, and hated by his brethren. One day, Jacob, seated on a grand chair as befits a patriarch, said to Joseph, \"Go now, see if it is well with your brothers, and with the flock; and bring me word again.\"",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1250 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.14R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.14r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.14r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.14r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 13.2,
            "height": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 3/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (13.2 x 9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Gothic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] below the image reads: Jacob sends Joseph",
        "his son",
        "to Sichen to his brothers who were guarding the beasts; [Transliteration] Above: iacob ioseph; [Transliteration] Below: iacob enveat ioseph suen fiz en sichen a sas freres q[ui] gardient les bestes."
    ],
    "med": "ink and pigment on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3408",
        "3408"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.106.14r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "20abb4d4ee849253"
}