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    "localId": "81449",
    "label": "Joseph is Arrested by the Vizier’s Guard",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.646.120A"
}

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    "id": "81449",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.646.120A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Joseph is Arrested by the Vizier’s Guard",
    "description": "On this folio from Walters manuscript W.646, Joseph is arrested by the vizier's guard, having been falsely accused by Zulaykha of trying to seduce her in her sleep.",
    "provenance": "Muhammad Vali Mirza [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [fol.1a: Muhammad Vali Mirza]; Court librarian Mirza Baba, 1821 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown] [acquisition note on fol. 1a: made in Dar al-'Ibadah Yazd, dated Ramadan 1236 AH/AD 1821 and signed by the court librarian Mirza Baba; underneath a seal: 'Abduh Jahangir, 118[0](?) AH/AD 1766-1767]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 12th century AH/AD 18th century (Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.646.120A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22,
            "height": 13.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 11/16 x W: 5 5/16 in. (22.0 x 13.5 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Islamic",
    "dynasty": "Mughal Dynasty",
    "med": "ink and pigments on laid paper",
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    ],
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        "MSS",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
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