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The "Wall Worker" by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

The "Wall Worker"

The "Wall Worker"

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 2 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 11.5 × 7.6 cm (4 9/16 × 3 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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