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Peter Henry Emerson

On the Flood

1887
Photoetching, pl. III from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
10.8 × 21.5 cm (4.3 × 8.5 in)

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