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

TITLE ON OBJECT: A Slipery Path - Winter Scene
BOOK TITLE: P.H. Emerson, --Pictures of East Anglian Life.-- London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1888, pl. XXIII [RB TR 652 E63P]

ca. 1886 / print ca. 1888
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
photogravure print
23.1 x 20.5 cm.
Museum Purchase
77:0550:0023

NON-GEH NUMBER: plate XXIII

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Nancy. --P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 209.//
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. 114.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 2, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in image) "P.H. Emerson." recto-(on tissue sheet covering image) (printed) "Plate XXIII. A Slippery Path - Winter Scene. [Norfolk.]"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/93, DZ. "Emerson spent much time in his field trips on the Broads observing and interviewing the locals, recording dialect, native customs and folklore. --Pictures of East Anglian Life-- is a rather quirky anthropological study of Norfolk and Suffolk peasantry illustrated with photographs. ... Some of the material for the volume he gathered already while on his trip in 1885 with Goodall... He spent three months on the Broads again in the summer of 1886 and finished the manuscript in July 1887. He stated in the preface: 'I have endeavoured in the plates to express sympathetically various phases of peasant and fisherfolk life...' The photographs are some of the most obviously documentary of all of his work; they are less contrived than the genre scenes..., yet the emphasis on poetry and sentiment is quite evident. The plates were reproduced in photogravure by the Autotype Company, the Typo Engraving Company and Messrs Walker & Boutall. Plate XIX, 'A Way Across The Marshes' was worn out after 30 pulls and was substituted by 'Mending The Wherry' which was a plate made by Emerson himself." [Life and Landscape: P.H. Emerson Art and Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900--, p. 36] "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., Edinburgh and London."

SUBJECTS:
landscape, winter
landscape, figure in
architecture, house
architecture, bridge

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