DETAILS
- Artist
- Francis Frith
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Image: 37.9 x 47.7 cm (14 15/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gilman Collection, Purchase, Anonymous Gifts, by exchange, 2005
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