Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne|Adrien Tournachon

Figure 83: Lady Macbeth, ferocious cruelty

1854–56, printed 1862
Albumen silver print from glass negative
28.3 × 21.4 cm (11.1 × 8.4 in)

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