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{
    "localId": "37063",
    "label": "Portrait of a Woman",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.636"
}

{
    "id": "37063",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.636",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a Woman",
    "description": "From the sitters costume and hair style this portrait of an unknown woman can be dated to ca. 1840. She appears to be in evening dress, with a pearl necklace and matching earrings (only one of which is visible beneath her hair), and elaborate hair ornamentation. Her black shawl has a decorative trim and she is seated on a couch.",
    "provenance": "Thomas Footer, Cumberland, MD, before 1921; inherited by Ellen G. Keene, Baltimore, 1921; inherited Mrs. Mary K. Greenblatt, Baltimore and her brother, Cy Keene, Jr., Owings Mills, Maryland, 1994; given to Walters Art Museum, 1995.",
    "date": "ca. 1840",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.636",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.636_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.636_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_38.636_Back_DD_T13.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.5,
            "height": 6.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 3/8 × W: 2 5/8 in. (8.5 × 6.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Sticker] on reverse: 117",
    "med": "watercolor on ivory (?)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6184"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_38.636_Fnt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "a2adcbee40fa3036"
}