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Roger Fenton

Picquet House, Cathcart's Hill, from General Bosquet's Quarters

1855
Salted paper print, from the album "Photographic Pictures of the Seat of War in the Crimea" (1856)
12.5 × 25.6 cm (4.9 × 10.1 in)

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