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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Children of the Broad
BOOK TITLE: P.H. Emerson, --On English Lagoons.-- London: David Nutt, 1893 [RB GV 814 E63]

ca. 1890 / print ca. 1893
PUBLISHER: David Nutt, London
photogravure print
11.1 x 14.3 cm.
Museum Collection, by exchange: ex-collection Helmut Gernsheim
93:0209:0004

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
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. 120.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 2, 1996.//

NOTES: Catalogued 10/93, DZ. Title from "List of Plates". --On English Lagoons-- contains 15 photogravure plates and 18 halftone text illustrations. Only the photogravures have been catalogued. "--On English Lagoons-- was written as an account of a year-long voyage on the Broads in 1890 by 'two amateur wherrymen', in this case Emerson and his servant Jim, aboard Emerson's own wherry, 'The Maid of the Mist'... This trip ... could have been his most fruitful, as at least he had the long stretch of time in the countryside which he had been advocating as essential for true naturalists. Instead he decided by the end of the trip that photography, though very charming, was not art... He nevertheless persued the production of --On English Lagoons--, which includes the result of an experiment in naturalistic photography by moonlight, tinted blue in the photogravure. Emerson etched all the plates himself...having learnt the process in 1889..." [--Life and Landscape: P.H. Emerson Art & Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900--, p. 38] "Printed by Ballantine, Hanson and Co., Edinburgh and London."

SUBJECTS:
people, children
people, in boat
transportation, sailboat

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