Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "83750",
    "label": "Townspeople, Who have Never Seen an Elephant, Examine its Appearance in the Dark",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.626.117B"
}

{
    "id": "83750",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.626.117B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Townspeople, Who have Never Seen an Elephant, Examine its Appearance in the Dark",
    "description": "On this folio from Walters manuscript W.626, townspeople, who have never seen an elephant, examine its appearance in the dark.",
    "provenance": "Ibrahim [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [round seal impression, Ibrahim (...) on front flyleaf iia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1073 AH/AD 1663",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.626.117B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.626.117b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.626.117b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.626.117b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.5,
            "height": 15
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 7/16 x W: 5 7/8 in. (26.5 x 15 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "med": "ink and pigments on thin laid paper (probably Kashmiri)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "15727"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.626.117b_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f6dfb6180a8d39f8"
}