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Peter Henry Emerson

The First of the Herring

1887
Photoetching, pl. XXVII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
9 × 14.8 cm (3.5 × 5.8 in)

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