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Old Furniture by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

Old Furniture

Old Furniture

1881

Medium: Woodburytype, plate 20 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 11.2 × 8.7 cm (4 7/16 × 3 7/16 in.); Page/mount: 27.6 × 21.3 cm (10 7/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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