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    "localId": "2982",
    "label": "Portrait of the Evangelist Mark",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.850.60V"
}

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    "id": "2982",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.850.60V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of the Evangelist Mark",
    "description": "The Evangelist is depicted as having already copied Mk. 1:1-2.",
    "provenance": "Monastery at Gunda Gunde, northeastern Ethiopia, early- to mid- sixteenth century; Church of Mädhane Aläm at Mäjate, Ethiopia, 1892-1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Private collection, France, prior to 1973 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Sam Fogg, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1998, by purchase.",
    "date": "first half of the 16th century (Stephanite)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.850.60V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_W.850.60V_OpnRev_TR_T01III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_W.850.60V_OpnRev_TR_T01III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30,
            "height": 24.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 13/16 x W: 9 5/8 in. (30 x 24.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Christian Highland Ethiopian",
    "style": "Gunda Gunde",
    "med": "ink and pigments on heavy, thick parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6264"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "BYZ"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_W.850.60V_OpnRev_TR_T01III.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f69babd3d41873c6"
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