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    "localId": "32861",
    "label": "\"\"Mother's Sorrow\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1957"
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    "id": "32861",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1957",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "\"\"Mother's Sorrow\"\"",
    "description": "The scene shows an empty crib, the mother looking upward toward the soul of an infant ascending into heaven. Thorns surround the earthly part of the composition, morning glories the heavenly part.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, date and mode of acquisition unknown; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1843",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1957",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.8,
            "height": 15.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Hl: 8 3/16 x W: 6 1/8 in. (20.8 x 15.5 cm)"
}

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