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Garden at the English Consulate, Canton by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

Garden at the English Consulate, Canton

Garden at the English Consulate, Canton

1869

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 8 1/4 × 10 13/16 in. (21 × 27.5 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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