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    "localId": "27610",
    "label": "Fragment of a Fresco with the Poet as King",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/33.1"
}

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    "id": "27610",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/33.1",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fragment of a Fresco with the Poet as King",
    "description": "This fresco is brown, white, blue and yellow, and within a border depicts a man and woman standing. Skene is kneeling and writing with the left hand under a mask. This figure is copied from the \"Poet as King\" fresco from Herculaneum in Naples. Under the paint, there are traces of other colors.",
    "provenance": "Joseph Brummer [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d. (modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/33.1",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "frescoes",
        "fragments"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_33.1_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_33.1_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "brown, white, blue and yellow colors on plaster",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL2_33.1_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "6a2b8120e7a0b730"
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