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{
    "localId": "13348",
    "label": "Decoration Commemorating the Birth of the \"\"King of Rome\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.951"
}

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    "id": "13348",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.951",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Decoration Commemorating the Birth of the \"\"King of Rome\"\"",
    "description": "A gold eagle grasps in its talons thunderbolts between which hangs a medal by Bertrand Andrieu and André Galle commemorating the birth of the \"King of Rome,\" in 1811. On the obverse of the medal are the double portraits of Napoleon I and Marie Louise and, on the reverse, the portrait of their infant son, Napoleon Francis Joseph Charles (1811-1832), the \"King of Rome.\"",
    "provenance": "Marshal H. G. Bertrand (1773-1844) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Pierre Sichel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1892, by purchase [together with other Napoleonic memorabilia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1811",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/57.951",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Gold, Silver & Jewelry",
        "medals",
        "pendants"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_57.951_VwA_DD_T10.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 3.2,
            "height": 1.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 1/4 x Diam of medal: 5/8 in. (3.2 x 1.6 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] obverse: Andrieu F.;reverse: NAPOLEON F.J.C. ROI DE ROME GALLE / XX MARS / MDCCCXI",
    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5470",
        "16512"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2513"
    ]
}

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