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Quanting the Marsh Hay by Peter Henry Emerson — VisualArtsDB

Quanting the Marsh Hay

Quanting the Marsh Hay

Peter Henry Emerson

1886

Medium: Platinum print, pl. XVI from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 15.6 × 23.3 cm (6 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Album page: 28.6 × 41.1 cm (11 5/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
Genre: platinum print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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