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P.H. Emerson
English (b. Cuba, 1856-1936)
T.F. Goodall
(active ca. 1880s-1890s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Coming Home from the Marshes.
BOOK TITLE: P.H. Emerson & T.F. Goodall, --Life & Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.--, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886. pl. I

ca. 1885 / print ca. 1886 by Valentine & Sons, Dundee
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington
platinum print
19.5 x 28.1 cm.
Gift of William C. Emerson
GEH NEG: 6532
79:4338:0013

OLD GEH NUMBER: 6532:1

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Lyons, Nathan, ed. --Photographers on Photography.-- Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966. pl. 23.//
Newhall, Nancy. --P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 187.//
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. 13.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 2, 1996.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"International Exhibition of Photography - The Camera as Witness", Canada, QUE, Montreal, Expo 67, April 28 - October 27, 1967.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25, 1991 - March 22, 1992.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//
"Through The Lens", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 22, 1996 -.//

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

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 6/93, MMD.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, group
landscape, marshy
artifact, sickle
occupation, farmers

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