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{
    "localId": "76564",
    "label": "Leaf from the Life of the Virgin: Annunciation to Joachim and Anna",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.351.2R"
}

{
    "id": "76564",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.351.2R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Leaf from the Life of the Virgin: Annunciation to Joachim and Anna",
    "description": "This illuminated folio shows the Annunciation to Joachim and Anna. Joachim and Anna with hands in prayer are leaving a city. A tree is represented in the middle. A flying angel appears in the sky in front of them.",
    "provenance": "Congregatione de Sancto Domenego de Bologna, Bologna, ca. 1500 [fol. 1v flyleaf]; Abbate mateo Canonici [collection no. 300]; Rev. Walter Sneyd, 1835, by purchase [circular bookplate on front flyleaf]; Rev. Walter Sneyd Sale, London, 1903, no. 481; Bernard (?)] Quaritch, 1903, by purchase; Olschki Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1907, by purchase [invoice Nov.  24, 1905; described in a letter of Dec. 20, 1906]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1440-1450 (early Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.351.2R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_W.351.2r_Det_BW_H72.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_W.351.2r_Det_BW_H72.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 33.7,
            "height": 23
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 13 1/4 x W: 9 1/16 in. (33.7 x 23 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "International Gothic",
    "RelatedObjects": 12738,
    "med": "ink, tempera paint and gold leaf on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5800",
        "6200"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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