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Tab.443.a.6(13)
- Record Id:
- 040-003302313
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003302300
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x00140c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Tab.443.a.6(13)
- Title:
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Furze-cutting on a Suffolk common. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
- Scope & Content:
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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 hard wiry stems. We watched him at his work. The stroke is not at all that of the mower, a long, sweeping stroke, but a shorter, sharper stroke, more like the action of cracking a whip. The gorse of furze is generally cut in autumn, so that it may weather or 'sare,' as our friends would say, in the autumn sun. He cuts it to keep it down, as otherwise it would soon cover the whole of the common...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003302300
040-003302313 - Is part of:
- Tab.443.a.6 : Pictures of East Anglian life. Illustrated with thirty-two photogravures and fifteen small illustrations. With general and…
Tab.443.a.6(13) : Furze-cutting on a Suffolk common. Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry - Hierarchy:
- 032-003302300[0013]/040-003302313
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Tab.443.a.6
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Photogravure
Photomechanical Print - Start Date:
- 1880
- End Date:
- 1887
- Date Range:
- 1880s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 216 mm x 295 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Emerson, Peter Henry, photographer and writer, 1856-1936
- Subjects:
- Agricultural labourers
Country Life
Labourers
Manners and Customs
Occupations - Places:
- Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Western Europe