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

TITLE ON OBJECT: On The River Bure.
BOOK TITLE: P.H. Emerson and T.F. Goodall, --Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.-- London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1886. frontispiece

ca. 1885 / print ca. 1886 by Valentine & Sons, Dundee
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
platinum print
13.1 x 23.4 cm
Gift of William C. Emerson
79:4338:0002

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6538

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
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. XV.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 2, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in pencil) "On the River Bure"

NOTES: 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, 35. 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." Catalogued 11/93, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
landscape, river
animal, sheep

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