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    "localId": "37734",
    "label": "Watch with Benjamin Franklin",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.147"
}

{
    "id": "37734",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.147",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with Benjamin Franklin",
    "description": "The image of Franklin reading beside a bust of Isaac Newton is based on a portrait painted in London in 1766-1767 by David Martin (English, 1737-1798).  Breguet et fils was a firm founded in Paris in 1775 by Abraham Breguet, an immigrant from Neuchâtel, Switzerland.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1830",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.147",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "cases"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "silver-gilt with enamel",
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    ],
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    ],
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}

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