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Peter Henry Emerson

The Ferry

1887
Photoetching, pl. XXV from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
10 × 12.4 cm (3.9 × 4.9 in)

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