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{
    "localId": "39536",
    "label": "Book of Hours",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.181"
}

{
    "id": "39536",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.181",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Book of Hours",
    "description": "This Book of Hours was illuminated between 1460 and 1470 under the influence of Willem Vrelant in Bruges. The manuscript contains seven extant inserted full-page miniatures (eight others are now missing), and their accompanying foliate borders teem with charming grotesques, many of which are holding and reading books.",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1460-1470",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.181",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.181_000001_sap.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.181_000001_sap.jpg",
    "imageCount": 11,
    "pageCount": 11,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9.4,
            "height": 6.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 3 11/16 × W: 2 5/8 in. (9.4 × 6.7 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "School of Vrelandt",
    "med": "ink and pigments on parchment bound between boards covered with velvet and gilded silver clasps",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6505"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 7,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.181_000324_sap.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d1b6c47dfa42a3fe"
}