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211. Tab.443.a.6(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(6)
Title:
Smelting on the River Blythe (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

212. Tab.443.a.6(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(7)
Title:
In the barley-harvest (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

213. Tab.443.a.6(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(8)
Title:
Shocking corn (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

214. Tab.443.a.6(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(9)
Title:
The farm by the broad (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a country road towards farm building, partially obscured by trees, with the broad on the right.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

215. Tab.443.a.6(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(10)
Title:
The fringe by the mere. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the stretch of water towards farm buildings silhouetted against the sky on the far bank: 'Our second plate represents a group of farm buildings nestling away beyond the reed. At the staithe is m...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

216. Tab.443.a.6(11)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(11)
Title:
At the covert corner (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of of a gamekeeper, standing beside the reeds with his dogs and posed in the act of lighting his pipe. At his feet lies his bag of rabbit, duck and an owl.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

217. Tab.443.a.6(12)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(12)
Title:
A March pastoral (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

218. Tab.443.a.6(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(13)
Title:
Furze-cutting on a Suffolk common. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two men cutting furze, the figure in the foreground wielding a scythe: 'One day in early autumn we met the intelligent model shown in the plate. He was hard at work with his short stout scythe, cutting the...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

219. Tab.443.a.6(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(14)
Title:
Osier-peeling (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of girls and young women at work: 'Here we have a basket-maker's yard as seen by us one beautiful day in early spring. Here, at the brakes, we see the women hard at work peeling the pliant osier stems, while ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

220. Tab.443.a.6(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(15)
Title:
The basket-maker (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a man, seated on the ground, making a wicker basket: 'The basket-maker, who works either in a covered shed or in an open one according to the weather, sits on a board upon the ground; his chief tool is a...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item