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John Thomson

Boat Girls; A Canton Boatwoman and Child; Musicians; Musicians

c. 1868
Collotype, pl. VII from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
10.9 × 8.7 cm (4.3 × 3.4 in)

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