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{
    "localId": "83810",
    "label": "A Nilgai",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.865.A"
}

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    "id": "83810",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.865.A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "A Nilgai",
    "description": "Walters manuscript leaf W.865, this painting of a nilgai (also called a blue bull or Boselaphus tragocamelus), which is an antelope indigenous to Asia, is attributable to the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned 1037-1068 AH/AD 1627-1658).",
    "provenance": "John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 2001, by gift.",
    "date": "1031-1059 AH/AD 1625-1650 (Mughal)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.865.A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.865.A_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.865.A_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.865.A_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21,
            "height": 27.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 8 1/4 x W: 11 in. (21 x 27.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Islamic",
    "reign": "Shah Jahan (1037-1068 AH/AD 1627-1658)",
    "med": "ink and pigments on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "INT",
        "MSS",
        "ISL",
        "MIS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.865.A_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "69bf7d4f4b9cf792"
}