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November Effigies by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

November Effigies

November Effigies

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 13 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 8.9 × 11.6 cm (3 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.3 cm (10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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