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There must be a flashing chiaroscuro, and the spirit of motion pervading the scene, as though nature were just springing from Chaos.\" Meant to evoke civilization’s inchoate beginnings, <I>The Savage State</I> was followed by four images of the same imagined locality as it developed into a magnificent city, only to be destroyed and returned to wilderness, providing a sublime, if defeatist, allegory of history, progress, and the nation state. </P></SPAN></SPAN>"]},"label":{"en":["Description"]}}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839/full/!350,350/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":219,"width":350,"service":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}],"viewingDirection":"left-to-right","behavior":["individuals"],"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Princeton University Art Museum"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/about","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Princeton Univesity Art Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Princeton Univesity Art Museum Homepage"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/puam_logo/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":38,"width ":200,"service":[{"@id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/puam_logo","@type":"ImageService2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}]}]}],"seeAlso":[{"id":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/21730","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Object Page in Online Collections Catalog"]},"format":"text/html"}],"partOf":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/collection","type":"Collection"}],"items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/canvas/21730-canvas-202948","type":"Canvas","height":3316,"width":5282,"items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/page/21730-anno-202948","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/annotation/21730-anno-202948","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","target":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/canvas/21730-canvas-202948","body":{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839/full/max/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":3316,"width":5282,"service":[{"@id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/2/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839","@type":"ImageService2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839/full/!350,350/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":219,"width":350,"service":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}],"label":{"en":["View 1"]}},{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/canvas/21730-canvas-202959","type":"Canvas","height":3074,"width":4818,"items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/page/21730-anno-202959","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/annotation/21730-anno-202959","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","target":"https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/21730/canvas/21730-canvas-202959","body":{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38841/full/max/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":3074,"width":4818,"service":[{"@id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/2/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38841","@type":"ImageService2","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38841","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38841/full/!350,350/0/default.jpg","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":223,"width":350,"service":[{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38841","type":"ImageService3","profile":"level2"}]}],"label":{"en":["View 2"]}}],"start":{"id":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2016_38839","type":"Canvas"}}