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    "core": {
        "objectID": 45967,
        "objectNumber": "F1983.251",
        "primaryTitle": "Balaam,--or the Majesty of the People",
        "objectName": "etching",
        "dated": "1783",
        "classification": "Prints",
        "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs",
        "medium": "etching printed in black ink on laid paper",
        "dimensions": "Plate: 9 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (25.1 × 35.2 cm)\r\nSheet: 18 × 24 inches (45.7 × 61 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Gift of Draper Hill and Douglas K. Semivan ",
        "provenance": "1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed, on plate, lower left: J Gilllay fecit",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, on plate, in a banner from the mouth of the man at the left: We Farmers have our Bodys Eat up, for the good of our Souls\r\nInscribed, label for each of three tails of the whip: Pious Fraud, English Statutes, Popish Canons\r\nInscribed, label on basket: Tithes\r\nInscribed, on banner from mouth of uniformed man: I am an Independant [sic] Country Gentleman & Colc of the Militia\r\nInscribed, lower right: Pubd April 10th 1783 by W Humphrey N, 227 Strand.\r\nInscribed, lower, BALAAM,--or the MAJESTY of the PEOPLE. The Lord open'd the Mouth of the Ass, &c. \r\nInscribed, in pencil, on verso, lower left: Pulled APRil 10 1983 . D.K. SEMIVAN",
        "markings": "Watermark, upper right: of Richard de Bas mill."
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "James Gillray",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "English",
            "bio": "English, 1756-1815"
        },
        {
            "displayName": "Douglas K. Semivan",
            "role": "Printer",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, born 1949"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "James Gillray, Balaam,--or the Majesty of the People, 1783, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Draper Hill and Douglas K. Semivan, F1983.251."
        }
    ],
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            "name": "military personnel",
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        },
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            "name": "etching (printing process)",
            "type": "technique"
        },
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            "name": "paper (fiber product)",
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            "name": "ink",
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        },
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            "name": "figures (representations)",
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            "name": "etching",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "political cartoon",
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    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
        "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/45967"
    }
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