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Peter Henry Emerson

Return of the Shrimpers

1887
Photoetching, pl. XXIII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
8.1 × 9.7 cm (3.2 × 3.8 in)

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