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Tartar Soldiers by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

Tartar Soldiers

Tartar Soldiers

1863–1873

Medium: Collotype, pl. XIV from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
Dimensions: Image: 20.5 × 26.5 cm (8 1/8 × 10 7/16 in.); Album page: 34.9 × 47.1 cm (13 3/4 × 18 9/16 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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