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John Thomson

Cantonese Boy; Cantonese Merchant; Mongolian Male Head; A Venerable Head; A Labourer; Mongolian Male Head

c. 1868
Collotype, pl. IX from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)
7.8 × 6 cm (3.1 × 2.4 in)

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