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Linnaeus Tripe

The Great Pagoda

January–March 1858
Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative
33.6 × 30.1 cm (13.2 × 11.9 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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