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        "objectNumber": "77.58",
        "primaryTitle": "King Lear",
        "objectName": "painting",
        "dated": "ca. 1788",
        "classification": "Paintings",
        "department": "American Art before 1950",
        "medium": "oil on canvas",
        "dimensions": "Unframed: 20 1/2 × 27 1/2 inches (52.1 × 69.9 cm)\r\nFramed: 27 × 34 × 4 inches (68.6 × 86.4 × 10.2 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund ",
        "provenance": "by 1838, William Beckford, Bath; \r\nhis daughter Euphemia, wife of the tenth Duke of Hamilton; \r\nthe twelfth Duke of Hamilton.  \r\nJune 17-July 20, Hamilton Palace sale, Christies, lot 1068 (London, England).\r\ndealer, H. Graves and Co. (London, England).\r\n1909, Thomas B. Walker (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA).\r\n1937, Harry W. Peterson.\r\n1977, Frank Gunter (Champaign, Illinois, USA).\r\n1977-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed, lower left: B. West",
        "inscribed": "",
        "markings": "Label, formerly affixed to the back of the painting: Hamilton Palace, no. 1068."
    },
    "creators": [
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            "displayName": "Benjamin West",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, 1738-1820"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Benjamin West, King Lear, ca. 1788, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 77.58."
        }
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