Classic Photographs

Peter Henry Emerson

'Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff'

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October 5, 04:16 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Peter Henry Emerson

1856 - 1936

'Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff'

platinum print, plate XXI from the album Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, mounted on the original folio leaf, the printed title tissue overleaf attached, framed, 1886

image: 5 ½ by 11 in. (14 by 27.9 cm.)

frame: 17 ⅞ by 22 in. (45.4 by 55.9 cm.)

Peter Turner and Richard Wood, P. H. Emerson: Photographer of Norfolk (London, 1974), pl. 26 and p. 102

Nancy Newhall, P. H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art (Aperture, 1975), p. 146

Neil McWilliam and Veronica Sekules, eds., Life and Landscape: P. H. Emerson, Art & Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900 (Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 1986), p. 93

John Taylor, The Old Order and the New: P. H. Emerson and Photography, 1885-1895 (Munich and London, 2006), p. 75