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{
    "localId": "80056",
    "label": "Bridegroom is Buried Under a Collapsed Building",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.649.13A"
}

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    "id": "80056",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.649.13A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Bridegroom is Buried Under a Collapsed Building",
    "description": "This miniature from Walters manuscript W.649 depict a scene from the Suz va gudaz. On the morning the young man and woman were to be wed, the bridegroom travels to the home of his beloved. On his way, he stops to rest in a mud building. As a result of heavy rains, the structure falls and buries the bridegroom and his companions alive.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1068 AH/AD 1657 (Safavid; Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.649.13A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.649.13a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.649.13a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.5,
            "height": 14.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/4 x W: 5 11/16 in. (23.5 x 14.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16860",
        "16859",
        "16858"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ISL",
        "MIS",
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.649.13a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "70b3efed74dfb710"
}