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    "core": {
        "objectID": 77,
        "objectNumber": "35.37.6",
        "primaryTitle": "Mercury",
        "objectName": "engraving",
        "dated": "ca. 1539",
        "classification": "Prints",
        "department": "Prints, Drawings & Photographs",
        "medium": "engraving printed in black ink on laid paper",
        "dimensions": "Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 1 3/4 × 1 1/8 inches (4.4 × 2.9 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund ",
        "provenance": "A. Firmin-Didot (Paris, France); \r\nA. Freiherr von Lanna (Prague); \r\nPaul J. Sachs (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).\r\n1935-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "Signed, in plate, upper left: [artist's monogram]",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, in plate, upper left edge: 6\r\nInscribed, upper right: MERCVRIVS | [Mercury planetary symbol]\r\nInscribed, in plate, lower left and lower right: [Virgo and Gemini zodiacal symbols]",
        "markings": "Stamp, in black, verso: A. Firmin-Didot (Lugt 119)\r\nStamp, in brown, verso: A. Freiherr von Lanna (Lugt 2773)\r\nStamp, in brown, verso: P. J. Sachs (Lugt 2091)\r\nStamp, in black, verso: L (Lugt 1702)"
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Hans Sebald Beham",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "German",
            "bio": "German, 1500-1550"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Hans Sebald Beham, Mercury, ca. 1539, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 35.37.6."
        }
    ],
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            "width": 3365,
            "height": 4878,
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    },
    "terms": [
        {
            "name": "allegory",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "mythology",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "engraving (printing process)",
            "type": "technique"
        },
        {
            "name": "ink",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "laid paper",
            "type": "support"
        },
        {
            "name": "engraving (print)",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "Gemini symbol",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "Virgo symbol",
            "type": "subject"
        }
    ],
    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
        "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/77"
    }
}