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    KEITH'S HYALOGRAPHIC [LIVERPOOL]

    Unknown young woman

    c. 1860

    Ambrotype | 9.7 x 7.1 cm (image) (image) | RCIN 2932508

    This ambrotype depicts an unknown woman. The sitter may have been known at the time of purchase, or the photograph may have been acquired as an example of a portrait study. 

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