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    "core": {
        "objectID": 45602,
        "objectNumber": "34.113",
        "primaryTitle": "Shrimpers",
        "objectName": "drawing",
        "dated": "ca. between 1785 and 1789",
        "classification": "Drawings",
        "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs",
        "medium": "black chalk and gray wash on light tan laid paper",
        "dimensions": "Sheet: 10 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches (27.3 × 36.8 cm)\r\nFramed: 19 × 22 1/2 × 1 5/8 inches (48.3 × 57.2 × 4.1 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund ",
        "provenance": "1785- 1825?, Gainsborough family;\r\n1825, George Baker (London, England);\r\nJune 16, 1825, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England) no. 359; [as Studies, Group of Female Figures]\r\nThane (London, England) (note in annotated catalogue of Baker sale, British Museums scs 144 (5) microfilmed by University Microfilms, Ann Arbor);\r\nWilliam Esdaile (London, England);\r\nMarch 20-21, 1838, sold by (Christie's, London, England) probably Esdaile sale.\r\nby 1903, Arthur Kay (Edinburgh, Scotland);\r\nMay 23, 1930, sold by (Christie's, London, England);\r\n(P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London, England);\r\n1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, in brown crayon, lower conter of mount: THE SHRIMPERS\r\nInscribed, in pen and black ink, lower left of mount: 120 (by W. Esdaile)\r\nInscribed, in pencil, lower edge of mount: The Shrimpers. This is probably the original sketch for Gainsboroug's picture lately in the collection at Leigh Court but is now in the / National Gallery\r\nInscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower center of mount: Gainsborough (by W. Esdaile)\r\nInscribed, in pencil, upper left of mount, verso:[cut off] i Colle [cut off] / Exhibited Ipswich / Brussels\r\nInscribed, in pencil, upper right of mount, verso:Sketch of [indecipherable] / Picture National Gal.\r\nInscribed, in pencil, lower right of mount, verso:copy pink & Llue (sic. inverted)\r\nInscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower left of mount, verso: 1825 WE____Baker's Sale N120 (by W. Esdaile)\r\nInscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower center of mount, verso: Gainsborough (by W. Esdaile)",
        "markings": "Stamp, in brown, lower right: Esdaile (Lugt 2617)"
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Thomas Gainsborough",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "English",
            "bio": "English, 1727-1788"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Thomas Gainsborough, Shrimpers, ca. between 1785 and 1789, black chalk and gray wash on light tan laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.113."
        }
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    "terms": [
        {
            "name": "women",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "fishing",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "chalk",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "laid paper",
            "type": "support"
        },
        {
            "name": "drawing",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "wash (technique)",
            "type": "technique"
        },
        {
            "name": "England",
            "type": "creation"
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    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
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}