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{
    "localId": "33108",
    "label": "A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.40A"
}

{
    "id": "33108",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.40A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes",
    "description": "This illustration from Walters manuscript W.624 depicts the 20th maqala (discourse), which emphasizes female virtue. The king relentlessly pursues the female protagonist, claiming that he cannot resist her beautiful eyes. To escape his amorous advances, the woman plucks out her eyes and sends them to him. She thus chooses virtue over all else, even her ability to see.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Zaki, 1241 AH/AD 1825-1826 [mode of acquisition unknown] [oval seal, fols. 1a, 211a]; 'abd al-raji Muhammad Shafi', 1247 AH/AD 1831-1832 [mode of acquisition unknown] [rectangular seal fols. 1a, 211a]; Muhammad 'Ali [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [large oval seal with no date on fol. 211a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1597-1598 (Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.624.40A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.624.40a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.624.40a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 28.5,
            "height": 19
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 1/4 x W: 7 1/2 in. (28.5 x 19 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "style": "Mughal",
    "dynasty": "Mughal Dynasty",
    "RelatedObjects": 78281,
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7404",
        "7405"
    ],
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        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2664"
    ]
}

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