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2381. 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

2382. 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

2383. Tab.443.a.6(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
Tab.443.a.6(21)
Title:
The clay-mill (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.' Genre: Industrial Photography Showing a horse-driven clay-mill (for grinding down the freshly-dug clay preparatory to brickmaking), being operated by two workers.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

2384. 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

2385. 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

2386. 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

2387. V3153(frontis)

Reference (shelfmark):
V3153(frontis)
Title:
Photograph of the author and his Baluch servant. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length seated studio portrait of the traveller Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer, his servant standing to one side holding a tray with tea service. Ernest Ayscoght Floyer (1852-1903) entered the Indian Telegraph Service at the age of seventeen and for several years was sta...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1876-1877
Extent:
1 item

2388. WD55

Reference (shelfmark):
WD55
Title:
Coolies encountering difficulties on the road to Gangotri (Himalayas). 14 May 1849. Artist(s): Yule, Sir Henry (1820-1889)
Scope & Content:
Coolies encountering difficulties on the road to Gangotri (Himalayas). 14 May 1849. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Pl. IX.15. The Mauvais Pas of Ringul Thapa’; also quotation from Byron; in pencil: ‘May 14th. On the road to Gungotri. Himalaya’; on back, part of diary describing journey, and th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1849
Extent:
1 Item

2389. WD345

Reference (shelfmark):
WD345
Title:
Devaprayaga and a rope bridge across the Bagirathi, Garhwal (U.P.). 'Slit-eared' ascetics sitting on the rocks in the foreground and a woman washing her clothes. 11 May 1808. Artist(s): Hearsey, Hyder Young (1782-1840)
Scope & Content:
Devaprayaga and a rope bridge across the Bagirathi, Garhwal (U.P.). 'Sliteared' ascetics sitting on the rocks in the foreground and a woman washing her clothes. 11 May 1808. Water-colour; 14.25 by 21.75 ins. Note: ‘See Asiatick Researches’, xi, 1810, 488.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1808
Extent:
1 Item

2390. WD495

Reference (shelfmark):
WD495
Title:
Servants at work in the kitchen of a European house in Bengal. Artist(s): Moffat, James (1775-1815)
Scope & Content:
Servants at work in the kitchen of a European house in Bengal. c.1796. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘A Bengal Kitchen. Published in Calcutta.’ Pen-and-ink and wash; 10.5 by 13.75 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1796
Extent:
1 Item

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