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{
    "localId": "81293",
    "label": "Alexander the Great Hunting Deer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.609.320A"
}

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    "id": "81293",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.609.320A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Alexander the Great Hunting Deer",
    "description": "On this folio from Walters manuscript W.609, the figure of Alexander the Great (Iskandar), who is depicted hunting deer, is smudged.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Asharf ibn Muhammad Khatam al-Husayni, 1173 AH/AD 1759-1760 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal impression on fols. 1a and 401a]; Husayn …[?], 1308 AH/AD 1890-1891 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [ownership statement on fol. 1b]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "Composition: 922 AH/AD 1516; Miniature repainted: 12th century AH/AD 18th (Safavid)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.609.320A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.609.320a_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 29,
            "height": 17.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 11 7/16 x W: 6 7/8 in. (29 x 17.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Safavid Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on buff-colored laid paper",
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        "18135"
    ],
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        "MIS",
        "ISL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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