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221. Tab.443.a.6(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(17)
Title:
Eel-picking in Suffolk waters. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of an ell fisherman, posed with his son on the bank of a dike, about to plunge the trident-like eel-pick into the water.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

222. Tab.443.a.6(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(23)
Title:
A slippery path — winter scene (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of a woman posed in a snow-covered landscape, about cross the small footbridge in the foreground; a row of cottages stands in the background: 'The cottages in our plate are tenanted by peasants more prosperou...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

223. Tab.443.a.6(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(24)
Title:
Fencing in Suffolk. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two men at work constructing a fence: 'Our plate gives two fencers at work on a bleak March morning. The first operation is to destroy, and with the hooks they set to work cutting down saplings and bramble...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

224. Tab.443.a.6(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(27)
Title:
A toad in the path: early spring in Norfolk. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Landscape Photography Study of two children (taken from behind) on a path beside a dike, with a cottage in the background: 'On the left of the dike two little cottage-urchins have spied a toad in their path, and they have stopped to ey...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

225. Tab.443.a.6(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(29)
Title:
A garden end (Suffolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

226. Tab.443.a.6(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(30)
Title:
At the grindstone — a Suffolk farmyard. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a labourer sharpening an implement on a grindstone, watched by his son: 'Near the boy is the buckey with which the well-water was brought to make the dry stone work. All around is a crop of nettles , the...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

227. Tab.443.a.6(31)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(31)
Title:
Haymaker with rake (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of an agricultural labourer, posed with his rake against the sky.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

228. Tab.443.a.6(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(32)
Title:
A Norfolk flower. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Portrait Photography Brown-toned photogravure. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Norfolk girl.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

229. WD4464(30a)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD4464(30a)
Title:
August 28th 1862, Dublin [marriage of Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Wedding group posed in the garden of an unidentified house, presumably that of the bride's father. The couple are Sir Alexander Hutchinson Lawrence and his bride Alice Eacy, née Kennedy.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
28 Aug 1862
Extent:
1 item

230. Wq4/6069(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wq4/6069(13)
Title:
November effigies. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Study of a fireworks night effigies on a small donkey cart in a London street, accompanied by a man in woman's dress banging a drum: 'The accompanying photograph is that of a nondescript guy, somewhat clumsily built up by a costermonger who lives in t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1876-1877
Extent:
1 item