Planting of the Prince Consort's memorial tree. Photographer: Caithness (Earl of) or Bembridge
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Genre: Historical Events Facing p. 49. Group portrait taken on the occasion of the planting of the oak by Queen Victoria in Windsor Great Park, in memory of Prince Albert. The figures included in the group are identified beneath the print as follows: Queen Victoria in centre, and on the left: B...
Pictures of East Anglian life. Illustrated with thirty-two photogravures and fifteen small illustrations. With general and descriptive text and three appendices. Photographer(s): Emerson, Peter Henry
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Imprint: London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, St Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. 1888. Folio, quarter leather and red cloth binding (British Museum binding), with coat of arms stamped in blind on upper board, measuring 435 x 355 mm; top edge gilt; pp. iv, 150, [...
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Frontispiece. View looking along a path running beside a stream, towards an approaching horse cart loaded with hay.
The poacher — a hare in view (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a poacher with his dog, posed watchfully on open ground: 'In our first plate, the poacher, with his lurcher, is working on a common surrounded by dikes. His mate has netted the gates, and in the early mo...
Leafless March (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View across open land, with a leafless tree and a boy posed beside a stream in the foreground: 'It was a cold day in March that we took these plates ... On the way, as we were going down a sloping field, Friend Far...
A stiff pull (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Rear view of a farmer ploughing an uphill stretch of field with two horses, outlined against a cloudy sky: 'Our plate shows us a stiff pull, such as is life for many. Like the horses and the ploughman in the plate,...
Colts on a Norfolk marsh. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Portrait of a group of young horses beside a stream: 'On a marsh, huddling by a picturesque stream, some colts stand on the alert, ready with all the unreason of youth to gallop wildly to the other side of the mars...
Smelting on the River Blythe (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Portrait of a group of fishermen with their net at the water's edge: 'Many a morning have we watched these picturesque fisher-folk on the banks of the Blythe, pulling in their seine-net, or mending their sails clos...
In the barley-harvest (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of three agricultural labourers in a barley field: 'On our return to the barley-field we determined to take a plate during one of the short rests so frequent in this hard labour. Here one man is honing his ...
Shocking corn (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View across a harvested corn field, with a figure in the foreground stacking the sheaves of corn.