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.
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,...
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.
A March pastoral (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of ewes and lambs: 'Here is depicted, in very early spring, the hedgerow of a Suffolk field. The sombre tone well expresses the bleak, raw days of early March. An old ewe occupies the foreground, with her two...
A way across the marshes (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography 'In our second plate, far away extends the long, straight marsh-road, with its gleaming dikes on either hand—far away to the windmil, whose arms are lazily turning in the summer breeze. On the road, the thistles gr...
A garden end (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography View in a market garden in Beccles, with the owner and a young girl potting plants in the foreground.