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The Water-Cart by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

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The Water-Cart

The Water-Cart

The Water-Cart

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 11 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 8.5 × 11.4 cm (3 3/8 × 4 1/2 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.1 cm (10 15/16 × 8 5/16 in.)
Genre: Photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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