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    "localId": "34823",
    "label": "Profile Head of Benjamin Franklin",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.421"
}

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    "id": "34823",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.421",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Profile Head of Benjamin Franklin",
    "description": "Franklin was a hugely popular figure in Paris. Here the Italian sculptor Nini depicts the American in profile wearing a fur cap that had become associated with him from a portrait by Allan Ramsay, painted it in 1766, and which was well known from engravings.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest [from 5 West Mt. Vernon Place].",
    "date": "1777",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.421",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "medallions (medals)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_27.421_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12,
            "height": 1.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 4 3/4 × Diam: 9/16 in. (12 × 1.5 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] NINI F 1777; [Inscription] B. FRANKLIN. .AMERICAIN",
    "med": "terracotta",
    "creator_ids": [
        "7165"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3097"
    ]
}

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