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    "localId": "81160",
    "label": "Page of Pen Exercises",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.672.5B"
}

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    "id": "81160",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.672.5B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Page of Pen Exercises",
    "description": "This folio from Walters manuscript W.672 is a sheet of pen exercises (karalama). Such pen exercises were commonly collected in albums. In their technique and design pattern, the borders of this page are comparable to ebru (marbled paper) made by Hatib Mehmed Efendi (died 1187 AH/AD 1773), a celebrated Ottoman artist.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "10th century AH/AD 16th century-12th century AH/AD 18th century (Ottoman)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.672.5B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.672.5b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 30,
            "height": 23
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 13/16 x W: 9 1/16 in. (30 x 23 cm)"
}

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    "med": "ink and pigments on paper mounted on thin pasteboard",
    "creator_ids": [
        "17761"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2059",
        "3334"
    ]
}

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}