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Peter Henry Emerson

The Shoot, Amwell Magna Fishery

1880s
Photogravure, plate VI from the album "The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Volume I" (1888)
11.9 × 19.7 cm (4.7 × 7.8 in)

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