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Call Number:

PH-01013

Collection Name:

Wild Life on a Tidal Water

Creator:

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

No. of Items:

30 items

Span Dates:

1890

Description:

Photographically illustrated book by P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson (British, 1856-1936), entitled Wild Life on a Tidal Water; the Adventures of a Houseboat and Her Crew (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890). The publication is illustrated with thirty photoengravings by Emerson and T. F. Goodall and includes an appendix "Breydon past and present." Also included is "Lists of birds shot on Breydon Water, the wall surrounding and the land adjoining it" being Yarrell's complete list of British birds: p.(133)-145.

Accession No(s):

964:0303:0001-0030; Purchase from Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, 1963.

Location(s):

q NE 2620 E5 HRC-P (964:0303:0001-0030)
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Item(s):
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Great Yarmouth Harbour
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 17.8 x 22 cm; 7 x 8 7/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0001
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Low Water on Breydon
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 7.4 x 17.8 cm; 2 9/10 x 7 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0002
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title On the Flood
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 10.8 x 21.5 cm; 4 3/10 x 8 1/2 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0003
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Old Hulks
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 16.3 x 20.1 cm; 6 2/5 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0004
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Bound for the North River
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 8.1 x 15 cm; 3 1/5 x 5 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0005
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title On the Look-Out
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 8.2 x 12.6 cm; 3 1/5 x 5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0006
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Old Ship
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 9.4 x 20 cm; 3 7/10 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0007
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Bound for the North Sea
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 9.4 x 15.1 cm; 3 7/10 x 5 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0008
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Bowling Green
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 9.1 x 17.2 cm; 3 3/5 x 6 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0009
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Corner of Old Yarmouth
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 7.5 x 17.5 cm; 3 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0010
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Toil and Grime
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 9.3 x 20.1 cm; 3 7/10 x 7 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0011
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Decayed Fishermen
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 10.4 x 10.4 cm; 4 1/10 x 4 1/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0012
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title In Dock
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 12.5 x 12.6 cm; 4 9/10 x 5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0013
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Quays at Dinner-time
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 12.3 x 15 cm; 4 4/5 x 5 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0014
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The North River
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 8.4 x 20.4 cm; 3 3/10 x 8 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0015
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title On the Baulks
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 14.6 x 9.6 cm; 5 7/10 x 3 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0016
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title On Gorleston Sands
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 6.4 x 17.4 cm; 2 1/2 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0017
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title In a Sail-Loft
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 16.5 x 19.7 cm; 6 1/2 x 7 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0018
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Rope-spinning
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 11.1 x 12.6 cm; 4 2/5 x 5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0019
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title In the Yarmouth River
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 9.5 x 14.8 cm; 3 7/10 x 5 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0020
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Getting Ready for Fishing
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 11.2 x 17.5 cm; 4 2/5 x 6 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0021
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Breydon Smelters
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 8.1 x 9.6 cm; 3 1/5 x 3 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0022
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title Return of the Shrimpers
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 8.1 x 9.6 cm; 3 1/5 x 3 4/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0023
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Peaceful Harbour
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 12.8 x 17.8 cm; 5 x 7 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0024
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Yarmouth Row
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 13.4 x 9.9 cm; 5 3/10 x 3 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0025
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Ferry
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 9.9 x 12.4 cm; 3 9/10 x 4 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0026
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The First of the Herring
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 9.1 x 14.9 cm; 3 3/5 x 5 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0027
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title A Rope Walk
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 11.8 x 9.9 cm; 4 3/5 x 3 9/10 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0028
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title In Harbour
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 11 x 20.2 cm; 4 3/10 x 8 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0029
Artist/Maker Emerson, P. H. (Peter Henry), 1856-1936 (1856 - 1936)
Title The Last of the Ebb--Great Yarmouth from Breydon
Date 1890
Medium Photogravure
Dimensions 11.6 x 18.7 cm; 4 3/5 x 7 2/5 in
Credit line Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession
Number		 964:0303:0030

See Also:

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

Pictures from Life in Field and Fen (964:0308:0001-0020) f NE 2615 E5 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

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

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

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

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

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