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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: An Eel Catcher's Home

ca. 1885
platinum print
21.2 x 29.1 cm.
Museum Collection
81:1286:0009

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Newhall, Nancy. --P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1975. p. 159.//
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. 107.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 2, 1996.//

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. E,erson Art and Photography in East Anglia 1885- 1900--, p. 34.] "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., Edinburgh and London." Catalogued 11/93, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
people, with net
landscape, river
landscape, marsh
transportation, houseboat

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