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Peter Henry Emerson

A Suffolk Shrimper "Going Off"

c. 1883/87, printed 1888
Photogravure, pl. XXV from the album "Pictures of East Anglian Life" (1888)
14 × 13.5 cm (5.5 × 5.3 in)

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