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{
    "localId": "77598",
    "label": "Illuminated Initial L",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.200.17V"
}

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    "id": "77598",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.200.17V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Initial L",
    "description": "This alphabet book, a repository of foliate patterns and letter designs, may have served as a pattern book used by a scribe to demonstrate his skills or to delight a collector interested in illumination or script. The carefully rendered flora and fauna, such as the iris and butterfly that embellish the letter L and the blue-flowered delphinium found in the illuminated M on the facing page, recall the precision of the flora depicted in contemporary herbal works.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "16th century (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.200.17V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.200.17V_RevDet_DD_T06.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_W.200.17V_RevDet_DD_T06.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11,
            "height": 7.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "folio: 4 5/16 x 2 15/16 in. (11 x 7.5 cm);initial: 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (6 x 6 cm) approx."
}

{
    "med": "ink and paint on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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        "173",
        "3171"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_W.200.17V_RevDet_DD_T06.jpg",
    "mediaId": "06dbb1c9fa23ef6f"
}