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91. 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

92. 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

93. 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

94. 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

95. 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

96. 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

97. 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

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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

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