{
  "source_kind": "Curator communication, 17 September 2026; checked against the message in Gmail on 24 September 2026",
  "source_date": "2026-09-17",
  "curator": "Amy Kurtz Lansing",
  "role": "Curator, Florence Griswold Museum",
  "message_id": "1a0b0bb2ca2720a5",
  "verbatim": "Oliver Hazard Perry (1843-1914) / View of Stonington [CT], May 14, 1892, at 5am / Oil on panel, 12 x 15 in. / Florence Griswold Museum, Bequest of Arthur J. Phelan, Jr. 2017.1.3 / http://collections.flogris.org/objects-1/info/22780",
  "artist": "Oliver Hazard Perry",
  "artist_dates": "1843-1914",
  "title": "View of Stonington [CT], May 14, 1892, at 5am",
  "date": "1892-05-14",
  "time_text": "5am",
  "medium": "Oil on panel",
  "dimensions": "12 x 15 in.",
  "credit_line": "Florence Griswold Museum, Bequest of Arthur J. Phelan, Jr.",
  "accession": "2017.1.3",
  "object_url": "http://collections.flogris.org/objects-1/info/22780",
  "catalogue_status": "as given by the curator, 17 September 2026; object page request timed out",
  "date_source": "Title supplied by the curator on 17 September 2026, in reply to a request for a work with a dated written record",
  "inscription": {
    "text": "Stonington May 14 1892 5 AM",
    "position": "front, lower right",
    "hand": "the artist’s, as the curator understands it",
    "reader": "Nephos, from the photographs the curator supplied on 21 and 25 September 2026",
    "legibility": "“AM” follows the “5”, close to the frame at lower right. Nephos first read the inscription as ending at the “5”; the curator corrected this on 25 September 2026 with a second photograph.",
    "curator_source_date": "2026-09-21",
    "curator_verbatim": "I have attached a photo of the painting, with the inscription visible at lower right. I have understood the inscription to be in the artist’s hand.",
    "message_id": "1a0c421a6a9aea74",
    "correction": {
      "curator_source_date": "2026-09-25",
      "curator_verbatim": "One small correction for use in editing your post. As you can see in the attached photo, AM is visible after the 5.",
      "message_id": "1a0d94a53f53f24d"
    }
  },
  "inscription_reason": "Position and hand from the curator’s message of 21 September 2026, and the “AM” from her correction of 25 September 2026; the words are Nephos’s reading of her photographs, not a museum transcription.",
  "image_reuse": null,
  "image_reuse_reason": "No licence verified; the curator’s photographs were read but are not reproduced"
}