A reed boat-house. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the boathouse built of reeds in the marshes: 'A common sight on the Broads is the boathouse...But few of these are beautiful; their hard lines and symmetrical reed thatch offend the eye. Not so, however, with this little structure, which we discovered one wi...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the water towards cottages and boat-houses, 'a characteristic bit on the margin of one of the Broads. All over the watery foreground grow the small round spears of dark-green rush, reflected with curious effect...The four graceful little trees ar...
Twixt land and water. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography ''Twixt land and water' is suggestive of life on the Broad. On the grass lies, upside down, the flat-bottomed boat which is used by the Broadman when he goes to fish, or cut the reed and gladdon. The man has just been tarring it, and the shiny surface reflects so mu...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a broad towards houses silhouetted against the evening sky: 'In 'Evening,' half hidden among the willows we have a group of rustic buildings reflected in the water of the swampy foreground. Everything is subdued and softened in the fading light. ...
An autumn morning. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bank of a broad towards a cottage in the distance: '...a dike leads away to the chief point of interest — the old, white-walled, thatched cottage of a marshman. Part of the row of alder bushes which fringe the dike has been cut down, and the b...
The fringe of the marsh. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across marshy ground towards a group of thatched cottages. Here, 'much interesting and paintable material comes very happily together. Variety is added by a patch of gorse to a soft grassy foreground, already broken by the water, which takes the eye int...