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P.H. Emerson
English (b. Cuba, 1856-1936)

TITLE ON OBJECT: "A Stiff Pull"
BOOK TITLE: "A Selection of Prize Pictures from the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company's Amateur Photographic Exhibition", May, 1886 [RB TR 646 L55 L65 1886]

ca. 1886
PUBLISHER: London Stereoscopic and Photographic Com
albumen print
23.0 x 28.7 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 34985
77:0131:0016

NON-GEH NUMBER: No. 143

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Turner, Peter & Wood, Richard. --P.H. Emerson: Photographer of Norfolk.-- Boston: 1974. pl. 62.//
Newhall, Nancy. --P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 189.//
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. 113.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Acquisitions 1973-1980", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, June 12 - September 20, 1981.//

INSCRIPTION: page recto-(printed) "Silver Medal. Class 3. No. 143" "'A Stiff Pull'" "P.H. Emerson. B.A:M.B." page verso-(printed) "Class III." "Country House. For the best and second best Out-door Group, Studies of Animals, Sporting Scenes, Tennis, or Other Parties." "Medals - Gold, Silver and Bronze."

NOTES: Catalogued 10/95, DZ. Published also in --Pictures of East Anglian Life--, 1888, pl. IV.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, field
people, plowing
animal, horses

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