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A Tartar Soldier, Canton by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

A Tartar Soldier, Canton

A Tartar Soldier, Canton

1869

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 10 11/16 × 8 3/8 in. (27.1 × 21.2 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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