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    "localId": "38517",
    "label": "Anatomical Figure of a Young Boy",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.319"
}

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    "id": "38517",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.319",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Anatomical Figure of a Young Boy",
    "description": "This boy is from a \"family\" of three figures thought to have been made for a physician so that his patients could point to what hurt. In the 1600s, people did not take their clothes off for a doctor. See also 54.317 and 54.318",
    "provenance": "SanGiorgi, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1600-1650 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.319",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.319_3QtrRt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_54.319_3QtrRt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 9/16 in. (14.1 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "34"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_54.319_Fnt_DD_T12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "698796f96a34b987"
}