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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Cantley: Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide.
BOOK TITLE: P.H. Emerson and T.F. Goodall, --Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.-- London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1886. pl. XXIV

ca. 1884 / print ca. 1886 by Valentine and Sons, Dundee
platinum print
18.7 x 28.4 cm.
Gift of William C. Emerson
GEH NEG: 5894
79:4338:0001

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6538:24

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Turner, Peter & Wood, Richard. --P.H. Emerson: Photographer of Norfolk.-- Boston: 1974. pl. 19.//
Newhall, Nancy. --P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 147.//
Handy, Ellen & Lukacher, Brian & Rice, Shelly. --Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter Henry Emerson.-- NOrfolk, Virginia: The Chrysler Museum, 1994. p. 17.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 2, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in pencil) "Cantley: Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide"

NOTES: Cataloged 5/84, DZ, updated, 11/93. Each plate from this album has an accompanying page of text describing the scene. The text pages and album skeleton are stored in the library. "Emerson and painter T.F. Goodall embarked on a trip on the Norfolk Broads. They traveled all day, writing and taking photographs, returning to the boat at night to develop the negatives. By the end of the year [1885] all the material for --Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads-- was ready." "The plates were to be reproduced as platinotypes (this was the only one of his publications to do so) by Valentine and Sons, Dundee." "The volume appeared under the joint authorship of Emerson and T.F. Goodall." "Plates by Emerson: frontispiece, pl. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18, 23, 24, 25. Plates by Emerson and Goodall: pl. 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39." [Life and Landscape: P.H. Emerson Art and Photography in East Anglia 1885- 1900--, p. 34] "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., Edinburgh and London."

SUBJECTS:
landscape, rivers
transportation, sailboats
townscape, rivers

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