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Peter Henry Emerson

Furze-Cutting on a Suffolk Common

c. 1883/87, printed 1888
Photogravure, pl. XIII from the album "Pictures of East Anglian Life" (1888)
21.7 × 29.3 cm (8.5 × 11.5 in)

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