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Peter Henry Emerson

Brickmaking (Norfolk)

c. 1883/87, printed 1888
Photogravure, pl. XXII from the album "Pictures of East Anglian Life" (1888)
17.7 × 19.5 cm (7 × 7.7 in)

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