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    "core": {
        "objectID": 45970,
        "objectNumber": "66.14",
        "primaryTitle": "Charon's Boat",
        "objectName": "drawing",
        "dated": "between 1756 and 1815",
        "classification": "Drawings",
        "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs",
        "medium": "brush and brown ink over brown chalk and graphite pencil",
        "dimensions": ""
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund ",
        "provenance": "1815-1818, Hannah Humphrey (London, England);\r\n1818-ca. 1835, George Humphrey (London, England);\r\nJuly 13-16 1835, Mrs. George Humphrey, sold, E. Foster and son, lot 402 (London, England);\r\nby 1835, P & D Colnaghi (London, England);\r\nca. 1931-1961, Minto Wilson (London, England);\r\n1961-1964, Mrs. H. Blake Tyler (London, England); \r\nJuly 6-7, 1964, sold Sotheby and Co., lot 45 (London, England);\r\nJ. S. Mass (London, England);\r\n1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right corner: [indecipherable, crossed out] | Shys [crossed out] | The Stygian Lake Lake\r\nInscribed, in pencil, recto, lower right edge: [indecipherable, erased] Charon you should not come | [illegible] you [illegible] for us \r\nInscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper right corner: Charon's Boat passing the Stygian Lake | or the last [words crossed out] | Broad Bottomites on thier last voyage\r\nInscribed, in pencil above insciption:Taking the dead over\r\nInscribed, in pen and brown ink, at center, on sail: Catholic Bill\r\nInscribed, in blue pencil, verso, upper left: [indecipherable]",
        "markings": ""
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "James Gillray",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "English",
            "bio": "English, 1756-1815"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "James Gillray, Charon's Boat, between 1756 and 1815, brush and brown ink over brown chalk and graphite pencil. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 66.14."
        }
    ],
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            "name": "chalk",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "graphite",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "ink",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "figures (representations)",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "drawing",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "boat",
            "type": "subject"
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    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
        "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/45970"
    }
}