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Tab.443.a.6(19)
- Record Id:
- 040-003302319
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003302300
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x001412
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Tab.443.a.6(19)
- Title:
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A way across the marshes (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry
- Scope & Content:
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Inscription: Signed in the plate, 'P. H. Emerson.'
Genre: Landscape Photography
'In our second plate, far away extends the long, straight marsh-road, with its gleaming dikes on either hand—far away to the windmil, whose arms are lazily turning in the summer breeze. On the road, the thistles grow thick, their delicate purple crowns providing many a feating-place for the sweet-voiced goldfinch or the raucous donkey. Ducks waddle up the marsh-road and slip into the dike, swimming quickly away from us. On the right stands a rick of hay, rich food for the horses now drawing the loaded tumbrils of corn from the grain-bearing marshes. To the left grow some willows in the hedgerow of a lonely marsh-farm. To the right extend the marshes, intersected by water-filled arteries on to the river-bank, discernible three marshes off. On the river-wall the cattle huddle together in groups, and stare listlessly at the passing wherries...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003302300
040-003302319 - 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(19) : A way across the marshes (Norfolk). Photographer: Emerson, Peter Henry - Hierarchy:
- 032-003302300[0019]/040-003302319
- 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: 125 mm x 208 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:
- Agriculture
Farming
Grasses
Hay
Land
Marshes
Plants - Places:
- Norfolk, England, United Kingdom, Europe, Western Europe