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    "localId": "35321",
    "label": "Venus and Neptune",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.198"
}

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    "id": "35321",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.198",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Venus and Neptune",
    "description": "The Anglo-American artist George Boughton was highly acclaimed for his humorous, sometimes sentimental subjects. In the early 1880s, he visited the Dutch coastal towns searching for picturesque subjects. Here, he contrasts the appearances of a pretty Dutch milkmaid and a wizened seaman.",
    "provenance": "Dechamps, London; purchased by William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1882; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "ca. 1882",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.198",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "paintings"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.198_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.198_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 53.2,
            "height": 35.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 20 15/16 x W: 14 in. (53.2 x 35.5 cm); Framed H: 32 1/2 × W: 25 1/2 × D: 4 in. (82.55 × 64.77 × 10.16 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "\"\"G. H. Boughton",
        "\"\" signed lower left"
    ],
    "med": "oil on panel",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3094"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3300"
    ]
}

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