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    "core": {
        "objectID": 64798,
        "objectNumber": "13.11",
        "primaryTitle": "Belisarius and the Boy",
        "objectName": "painting",
        "dated": "1802",
        "classification": "Paintings",
        "department": "American Art before 1950",
        "medium": "oil on canvas",
        "dimensions": "Unframed: 26 × 19 inches (66 × 48.3 cm)\r\nFramed: 34 3/4 × 27 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (88.3 × 69.9 × 9.5 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Gift of A. Leonard Nicholson ",
        "provenance": "1802, Sir Francis Baring, Bt. (London, England);\r\n1848, his son, Sir Thomas Baring, Bt. \r\nJune 2-3, 1848, Baring sale (Christies, lot 26, London, England).\r\nA. Leonard Nicholson (London, England);\r\n1913-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed and dated, lower right, on side of stone seat:  B. West | 1802",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, on boy's plaque: DATE OBOLUM BELISARIO\r\n[translated: Give a penny to Belisarius]\r\n\r\nInscribed, on wall above old man: MOENIA URBIS REPARATA SUB IUSTINIANO A BELISARIO\r\n[translated: The fortifications of the city restored under Justinian by Belisarius] [this refers to Belisarius's reconstruction of the walls of Rome in 537]",
        "markings": ""
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Benjamin West",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "American",
            "bio": "American, 1738-1820"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Benjamin West, Belisarius and the Boy, 1802, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of A. Leonard Nicholson, 13.11."
        }
    ],
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    "terms": [
        {
            "name": "narrative",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "oil paint",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "canvas",
            "type": "support"
        },
        {
            "name": "man",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "painting (visual work)",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "history painting",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "Romanticism",
            "type": "styles and periods"
        },
        {
            "name": "boy",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "England",
            "type": "creation"
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    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
        "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/64798"
    }
}