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    "core": {
        "objectID": 41297,
        "objectNumber": "52.118",
        "primaryTitle": "Head of a Man",
        "objectName": "painting",
        "dated": "1777 - 1778",
        "classification": "Paintings",
        "department": "American Art before 1950",
        "medium": "oil on canvas",
        "dimensions": "Unframed: 21 × 16 1/4 inches (53.3 × 41.3 cm)\r\nFramed: 27 3/4 × 23 3/4 × 3 inches (70.5 × 60.3 × 7.6 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund ",
        "provenance": "the artist, John Singleton Copley [1738-1815];\r\nby descent to his wife, Mrs. John Singleton Copley;\r\ntheir son, Lord Lyndhurst, John Singleton Copley, Jr. (London, England).\r\nMarch 5, 1864, Lyndhurst Sale, lot 69, Christie's (London, England).\r\nIssac J. W. Burnett (Rock Hall, Alnwick, Northumberland, England).\r\nMay 23-24, 1928, J. W. Burnett Sale, lot 217, Christie's (London, England).\r\nMann;\r\nFebruary 24, 1951, Mann Sale, lot 102, Christie's (London, England);\r\n1951, dealer, M. Knoedler Co. (New York, New York, USA).\r\n1952-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)\r\n",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "",
        "markings": ""
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "John Singleton Copley",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, 1738-1815"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
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        }
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            "name": "Colonial American styles",
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            "name": "London",
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        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
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