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{
    "localId": "34839",
    "label": "The Eighth Plague: Locusts (Exodus 10:12-15)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.9R"
}

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    "id": "34839",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.9R",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "The Eighth Plague: Locusts (Exodus 10:12-15)",
    "description": "In this image from Walters manuscript W.106, the Lord told Moses to stretch forth his hand that locusts might come and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail had left. A dense swarm of locusts settled over all the land, one so dense that its like had never been seen before, nor would be seen again.",
    "provenance": "Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1250 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.106.9R",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.9r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.9r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.106.9r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 13.2,
            "height": 9.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 3/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (13.2 x 9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Medieval European",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] The eighth innumerable locusts and wingless locusts",
        "which ate the trees; [Transliteration] la .viii",
        "eme locusta & bruc[us] sen numbre q[ui] mangere[n]t les arbres."
    ],
    "med": "ink and pigment on parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3408",
        "3408"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.106.9r_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8359bddeee633002"
}