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{
    "localId": "8456",
    "label": "Intaglio with Head of a Man Set in a Ring",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1133"
}

{
    "id": "8456",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1133",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Intaglio with Head of a Man Set in a Ring",
    "description": "This intaglio shows the head of a beardless, youthful man, possibly Octavian who later became the emperor Augustus (r. 27 BCE-14 CE), in profile to the left.",
    "provenance": "George Spencer, fourth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, by 1817, [mode of acquisition unknown] [Marlborough no. 379]; George Spencer-Churchill, fifth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1817, by bequest; George Spencer-Churchill, sixth Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1840, by bequest; John Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1857, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 28 June 1875, p. 61, lot 379 [as “Lepidus”]; David Bromilow, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, ca. 1875, by purchase; Julia Bromilow Jary, Bitteswell Hall, Leicestershire, 1898, by bequest; Sale, The Marlborough Gems Purchased by the Late David Bromilow, esq., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 26 June 1899, p. 69, lot 379; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1899, by purchase [Dikran Kelekian as agent]; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by bequest; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1941, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. N5143a]; Walters Art Museum, 1942, by purchase.",
    "date": "1st century BCE (Late Hellenistic-early Roman Imperial)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.1133",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Precious Stones & Gems",
        "intaglios (sculptural objects)",
        "finger rings"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.1133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.1133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_42.1133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 1.4,
            "height": 1.3,
            "depth": 0.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "intaglio with setting: 9/16 x 1/2 x 1/8 in. (1.36 x 1.3 x 0.34 cm);ring: 13/16 in. (2 cm) (diam.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Roman",
    "med": "carnelian; mount: brass",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ROM",
        "JWL"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_42.1133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "698f148a682de21e"
}