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Call Number:

PH-00847

Collection Name:

Pictures from Life in Field and Fen

Creator:

Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)

No. of Items:

20 items

Span Dates:

1887

Description:

Titled Pictures from Life in Field and Fen (London
; G. Bell and Sons, 1887), this is a leather-bound, gold-embossed limited edition album (number 22 of 50) containing 20 photogravures from original negatives by Peter Henry Emerson. Each plate is accompanied by a guardsheet with descriptive letterpress. There are 14 pages of front matter, including a six page introduction by Emerson on art history and aesthetics. (A second, detached copy of the front matter has been laid in the box in which the album is housed.) Most of the images depict scenes of country life in East Anglia, England, which includes Norfolk, Suffolk, and part of Cambridgeshire. A variety of activities are represented, including farming, fishing, fuelwood gathering, grafting, and poaching. There are also views of sailboats on the North Sea.

Location(s):

f NE 2615 E5 HRC-P (964:0308:0001-0020)
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Item(s):

964:0308:0001 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. A Winter's Morning, 1887. Photogravure, 21.5 x 32.5 cm ; 8 1/2 x 12 4/5 in .

964:0308:0002 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. A Dame's School, 1887. Photogravure, 25.7 x 30.1 cm ; 10 1/10 x 11 9/10 in .

964:0308:0003 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. A Spring Idyl, 1887. Photogravure, 29 x 20.4 cm ; 11 2/5 x 8 in .

964:0308:0004 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. The Mangold Harvest, 1887. Photogravure, 20.3 x 31.4 cm ; 8 x 12 2/5 in .

964:0308:0005 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. Confessions, 1887. Photogravure, 24.9 x 29.8 cm ; 9 4/5 x 11 7/10 in .

964:0308:0006 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. The Grafter, 1887. Photogravure, 29 x 25.5 cm ; 11 2/5 x 10 in .

964:0308:0007 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. A Misty Morning on the North Sea, 1887. Photogravure, 14.7 x 18.1 cm ; 5 4/5 x 7 1/10 in .

964:0308:0008 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. On Southwold Marshes, 1887. Photogravure, 14.9 x 18.1 cm ; 5 9/10 x 7 1/10 in .

964:0308:0009 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. A Suffolk Dike, 1887. Photogravure, 30.5 x 25.2 cm ; 12 x 9 9/10 in .

964:0308:0010 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. Crusoe's Island - River Granta, 1887. Photogravure, 21 x 17.5 cm ; 8 3/10 x 6 9/10 in .

964:0308:0011 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. The Poacher, 1887. Photogravure, 22.5 x 31 cm ; 8 9/10 x 12 1/5 in .

964:0308:0012 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. Sunrise at Sea, 1887. Photogravure, 23 x 19.6 cm ; 9 1/10 x 7 7/10 in .

964:0308:0013 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. At Plough - The End of the Furrow, 1887. Photogravure, 24.5 x 31.2 cm ; 9 3/5 x 12 3/10 in .

964:0308:0014 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. On Breydon Water - Sea-Fog Coming Up, 1887. Photogravure, 8.5 x 20.9 cm ; 3 3/10 x 8 1/5 in .

964:0308:0015 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. Going To Market - A Winter Scene, 1887. Photogravure, 23.5 x 27.9 cm ; 9 3/10 x 11 in .

964:0308:0016 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. The Stickleback Catcher, 1887. Photogravure, 26.4 x 31 cm ; 10 2/5 x 12 1/5 in .

964:0308:0017 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. An Autumn Pastoral, 1887. Photogravure, 16.5 x 25 cm ; 6 1/2 x 9 4/5 in .

964:0308:0018 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. In the Barley-Sele, 1887. Photogravure, 27.3 x 33.5 cm ; 10 7/10 x 13 1/5 in .

964:0308:0019 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. The Faggot Cutters, 1887. Photogravure, 30.4 x 25.8 cm ; 12 x 10 1/5 in .

964:0308:0020 -- Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936); London: G. Bell and Sons. A Fisherman At Home, 1887. Photogravure, 26.7 x 24.4 cm ; 10 1/2 x 9 3/5 in .

See Also:

Idyls of the Norfolk Broads (964:0304:0001-0012) f NE 2620 E4 1887 HRC-P

Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and her Crew (964:0303:0001-0030) q NE 2620 E5 HRC-P

Selection of Prize Pictures from the London Stereoscopic and Photographic CompanyÕs Amateur Photographic Exhibition, May, 1886 (964:0335:0016) f TR 646 L665 HRC-P

Selection of Prize Pictures from the London Stereoscopic and Photographic CompanyÕs Amateur Photographic Exhibition, May, 1885 (964:0306:0003) f TR 646 L664 HRC-P

Pictures of East Anglian Life (964:0017:0001-0032) f DA 670 E14 E648 HRC-P

On English Lagoons: being an account of the voyage of two amateur wherrymen on the Norfolk and Suffolk rivers and broads (964:0301:0001-0015) DA 670 N6 E6 1893a HRC-P

Life and Landscape on The Norfolk Broads (964:0300:0001-0040) f NE 2620 E55 HRC-P

Complete Angler or the Comtemplative ManÕs Recreation: being a discourse of rivers, fish-ponds, fish and fishing (964:0302:0001-0027) q Sh 433 A 1888 HRC-P

Marsh Leaves (964:0307:0001-0016) q QH 541.145 E63 HRC-P


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