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John Thomson

A Canton Pawn Shop; Honam Temple, Canton; Temple of Five Hundred Gods, Canton; The Abbot of the Temple

c. 1868
Collotype, pl. XVIII from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
11.2 × 9 cm (4.4 × 3.5 in)

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