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Peter Henry Emerson

On Gorleston Sands

1887
Photoetching, pl. XVII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
16.5 × 17.5 cm (6.5 × 6.9 in)

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