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{
    "localId": "26721",
    "label": "Illuminated Frontispiece with an Artist Painting a River Scene for William T. Walters' Drawings Album \"\"Original Sketches\"\"",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1532"
}

{
    "id": "26721",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1532",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Illuminated Frontispiece with an Artist Painting a River Scene for William T. Walters' Drawings Album \"\"Original Sketches\"\"",
    "description": "This is the illuminated frontispiece for one of William T. Walters' drawings albums, titled \"Original Sketches.\" It is clearly inspired by medieval manuscript illuminations. It shows an artist in a white suit painting a river scene in the initial letter \"S\" and the ground is an all-over formalized vine pattern.",
    "provenance": "Commissioned by William T. Walters, Baltimore, by 1859; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.",
    "date": "1859",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1532",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "watercolors (paintings)",
        "frontispiece"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1532_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1532_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_37.1532_Fnt_BW_H76.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.8,
            "height": 18.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 1/16 × W: 7 3/16 in. (12.8 × 18.2 cm); Paper H: 7 5/16 × w: 9 7/16 in. (18.5 × 24 cm); Mat H: 14 1/4 × W: 19 1/4 in. (36.2 × 48.9 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Initialed] on shield: C M B [Dated] bottom right: Ao Di MDCCCLIX",
    "RelatedObjects": 4846,
    "med": "watercolor on paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "33560"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3271"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_37.1532_Fnt_DD_KI13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bf8de9594631e7fa"
}