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P.H. Emerson TITLE ON OBJECT:
A Winter's Sunrise
ca. 1890 / print ca. 1895
NON-GEH NUMBER: plate I
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
INSCRIPTION:
recto-(on tissue sheet covering image) (printed) "Plate I"
"A Winter's Sunrise" "Frontispiece"
NOTES:
Catalogued 10/93, DZ.
"--Marsh Leaves-- was Emerson's last published book of photographic
works. The photographs were probably taken partly on the same year-
long cruise on the Broads where he shot the material for --On English
Lagoons-- [1890] and on his last cruise in the summer of 1893, after
which he sold 'The Maid of the Mist'.
Ironically, --Marsh Leaves-- contains Emerson's most distinguished
and most impressionistic work. The influence of Hokusai, whose prints
had caused him to doubt the value of photography as art, is quite
evident. This seems to be the earliest body of photographic work to
show Japanese influence. Also, the misty quality he achieved in his
landscapes is strongly reminiscent of Whistler's 'Nocturnes'. The last
plate in the book is taken from Plate IX 'The Wealth of the Marshland'
from --Idyls of the Norfolk Broads-- and entitled 'The Last Gate' as
if to symbolize the end of an era. From surviving correspondence with
J. Harvard Thomas, it is clear that Emerson had decided by 1895 to
give up photography and turn instead to writing." [--Life and
Landscape: P.H. Emerson Art & Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900--,
p. 39]
"Printed by T. & A. Constable, printers to Her Majesty..."
SUBJECTS:
English (b. Cuba, 1856-1936)
BOOK TITLE:
P.H. Emerson, --Marsh Leaves.-- London: David Nutt, 1895,
pl. I
PUBLISHER: David Nutt, London
photogravure print
6.9 x 12.8 cm.
Museum Purchase
77:0018:0001
McWilliams, Neil, ed. & Sekules, Veronica, ed. --Life and Landscape: P.H.
Emerson, Art & Photography in East Anglia, 1885-1900.-- Norwich, England:
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 1986. p. 121.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to Museum Education Site Licensing
Project - Round 2, 1996.//
landscape, rural
animal, horses
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