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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.

Accession No(s):

964:0308:0001-0020; Gernsheim Collection. Bookplate of C.F. Ryder, Scarcroft, Leeds. Inscribed: C.F. Ryder Esq. On his marriage with Joseph Dodgson's very best wishes.

Location(s):

f NE 2615 E5 HRC-P (964:0308:0001-0020)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Winter's Morning
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 21.5 x 32.5 cm; 8 1/2 x 12 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0001
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Dame's School
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 25.7 x 30.1 cm; 10 1/10 x 11 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0002
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Spring Idyl
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 29 x 20.4 cm; 11 2/5 x 8 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0003
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Mangold Harvest
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 20.3 x 31.4 cm; 8 x 12 2/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0004
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Confessions
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 24.9 x 29.8 cm; 9 4/5 x 11 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0005
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Grafter
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 29 x 25.5 cm; 11 2/5 x 10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0006
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Misty Morning on the North Sea
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 14.7 x 18.1 cm; 5 4/5 x 7 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0007
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title On Southwold Marshes
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 14.9 x 18.1 cm; 5 9/10 x 7 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0008
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Suffolk Dike
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 30.5 x 25.2 cm; 12 x 9 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0009
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Crusoe's Island - River Granta
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 21 x 17.5 cm; 8 3/10 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0010
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Poacher
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 22.5 x 31 cm; 8 9/10 x 12 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0011
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Sunrise at Sea
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 23 x 19.6 cm; 9 1/10 x 7 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0012
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title At Plough - The End of the Furrow
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 24.5 x 31.2 cm; 9 3/5 x 12 3/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0013
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title On Breydon Water - Sea-Fog Coming Up
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 8.5 x 20.9 cm; 3 3/10 x 8 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0014
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Going To Market - A Winter Scene
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 23.5 x 27.9 cm; 9 3/10 x 11 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0015
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Stickleback Catcher
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 26.4 x 31 cm; 10 2/5 x 12 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0016
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title An Autumn Pastoral
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 16.5 x 25 cm; 6 1/2 x 9 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0017
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title In the Barley-Sele
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 27.3 x 33.5 cm; 10 7/10 x 13 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0018
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Faggot Cutters
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 30.4 x 25.8 cm; 12 x 10 1/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0019
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Fisherman At Home
Date 1887
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 26.7 x 24.4 cm; 10 1/2 x 9 3/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0308:0020

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