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Peter Henry Emerson

Bound for the North Sea

1887
Photoetching, pl. VIII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
9.4 × 15.2 cm (3.7 × 6 in)

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