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        "primaryTitle": "Watson and the Shark",
        "objectName": "painting\r\n",
        "dated": "1782",
        "classification": "Paintings",
        "department": "American Art before 1950",
        "medium": "oil on canvas",
        "dimensions": "Unframed: 36 × 30 1/2 inches (91.4 × 77.5 cm)\r\nFramed: 45 3/16 × 39 × 2 1/2 inches (114.8 × 99.1 × 6.4 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Fund ",
        "provenance": "before 1786, Noel Desanfans;\r\nApril 8, 1786, sale, lot 396, Christie's (London, England).\r\nby 1791, W. Goddard;\r\nFebruary 5, 1791, sale, lot 73, Christie's (London, England) [sold to Green].\r\nG. P. Anderson (London, England).\r\nca. 1850, W. P. Hunter (London, England).\r\n1946, dealer, M. Knoedler Co. (London, England);\r\n1946-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)\r\n",
        "signed": "Signed and dated, lower left: Painted by J. S. Copley R. A. London 1782",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, lower left: Painted by J. S. Copley R. A. London 1782",
        "markings": ""
    },
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            "displayName": "John Singleton Copley",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, 1738-1815"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
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            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
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