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Peter Henry Emerson

King's Weir, River Lea

1880s
Photogravure, plate XXII from the album "The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Volume II" (1888)
11.8 × 18.2 cm (4.6 × 7.2 in)

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