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Tab.443.a.6(18)
- Record Id:
- 040-003302318
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003302300
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x001411
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Tab.443.a.6(18)
- Title:
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Where winds the dyke (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
- Scope & Content:
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.'
Genre: Landscape Photography
View along a dyke towards a small wooden bridge: '...The wandering dyke leads the eye up to a quaint rustic bridge, beneath which it flows on past a deserted cattle-shed, half-buried in some wispy willows, whose new-born leaves gently rustle in the steamy April breeze. That is all; and yet to us the picture speaks eloquently of flowers of the salt marshes and cries of the circling fen-fowl; of nibbling sheep, and the frolics of new-born foals; of an ever-changeful sky, and more darkly changeful landscape; of the gentle murmurings of spring, of the hot breathings of summer, of the dying moanings of autumn, and of the wild cryings of winter, when the salt stinging blasts from the icy North Sea sweep with mighty sound across frozen marshes, spreading far and wide death and desolation...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003302300
040-003302318 - 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(18) : Where winds the dyke (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry - Hierarchy:
- 032-003302300[0018]/040-003302318
- 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: 120 mm x 148 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:
- Bodies Of Water
Bridges
Land
Marshes
Rivers - Places:
- Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Western Europe