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{
    "localId": "39344",
    "label": "Portrait of a Nobleman",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.316"
}

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    "id": "39344",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.316",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Portrait of a Nobleman",
    "description": "A gentleman is painted in watercolor. On the reverse of the miniature, rendered in hair are the letters MCO in script, a wreath, a pair of flanking doves and two burning hearts pierced by an arrow, all enclosed within a laurel leaf border.The miniature is mounted in an oval gold frame surrounded both on the obverse and reverse by a row of sixty-two diamonds in silver collets and an outer band of forty-nine half-pearls in gold collets. A loop for the suspension of the miniature is faced with three half-pearls.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Abraham Jay Fink; by bequest to A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963; given to Walters Art Museum, 1963.",
    "date": "ca. 1790",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/38.316",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "miniatures (paintings)",
        "portraits"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.316_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.316_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_38.316_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H of case: 2 7/16 in. (6.19 cm)"
}

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    "med": "watercolor on ivory, hair, gold, silver, diamonds, pearls",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3300"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513",
        "3225"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_38.316_Fnt_DD_T16-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "21119a9b32037f0c"
}