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The Water-Cart by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

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The Water-Cart

The Water-Cart

1877

Medium: Woodburytype, from the album "Street Life in London"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 8.6 × 11.5 cm (3 7/16 × 4 9/16 in.); Mount: 27.2 × 20.9 cm (10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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