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Peter Henry Emerson

Decayed Fishermen

1887
Photoetching, pl. XII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
10.3 × 10.3 cm (4.1 × 4.1 in)

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