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Black Jack by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

Black Jack

Black Jack

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 5 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 9.1 × 10.7 cm (3 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.5 cm (10 15/16 × 8 1/2 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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