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Peter Henry Emerson

Breydon Smelters

1887
Photoetching, pl. XXII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
8.8 × 12.6 cm (3.5 × 5 in)

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