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Peter Henry Emerson

A Rope Walk

1887
Photoetching, pl. XXVIII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
11.7 × 9.8 cm (4.6 × 3.9 in)

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