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C.141.dd.8(19)

Record Id:

040-003237960

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003237941

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026869721.0x00111f

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

C.141.dd.8(19)

Title:

Gunner working up to fowl. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry

Scope & Content:

Genre: Landscape Photography

View looking across an expanse of shallow tidal water (possibly at Breydon), with a wild-fowler lying in his gun-punt in the foreground: 'No boat is handier, or more perfectly adapted to its special purpose, than the gun-punt. The draught of water being only a few inches, the shallowest places are easily accessible to it. The bottom is flat from side to side, but curved slightly from stem to stern, like the line of a skate-blade...As may be seen in the pictures, the centre only of the boat is open, the ends being covered with a gently-sloping deck. A first-class gun-punt has very subtle lines, and can only be built properly by the most intelligent of boat-wrights, and perhaps only by one who is himself a gunner. The punt can be sailed, rowed, quanted, or sculled...The big gun is nicely poised on a swivel, the stout iron pin of which works in a socket drilled into a massive block of hard wood...the recoil being checked by a powerful spring...In our first picture a gunner, in the grey morning light, which the tone of the plate so well renders, is sculling up to some fowl which he has marked down among the rushes in a shallow corner of the Broad. Lying right down in the bottom of his punt, no part of him can be seen from the water, save the hand which grasps the short straight-bladed oar with which he sculls...'

Collection Area:

Printed Collections

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003237941
040-003237960

Is part of:

C.141.dd.8 : Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads. Illustrated with forty beautiful plates from nature executed in platinotype (the plates…

C.141.dd.8(19) : Gunner working up to fowl. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry

Hierarchy:

032-003237941[0019]/040-003237960

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

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Not applicable

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Techniques:

Photograph
Photographic Print
Platinum Print

Start Date:

1880

End Date:

1886

Date Range:

1880s

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