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The Open Altar of Heaven, Peking by John Thomson — VisualArtsDB

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The Open Altar of Heaven, Peking

1874

Medium: Collotype
Dimensions: 18 9/16 × 13 3/8" (47.2 × 34 cm) 4 1/2 × 9 7/16" (11.5 × 24 cm)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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