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View of Amoy by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

View of Amoy

View of Amoy

1869

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 7 1/4 × 10 1/8 in. (18.4 × 25.7 cm)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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