A Stiff Pull
Peter Henry Emerson
1880s, printed 1887
Medium
Photogravure
Dimensions
20.8 x 28.9 cm. (8 3/16 x 11 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs|Prints
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1948
Accession Number
48.105.69
Tags
HorsesMenFarmers
About the Artist
Peter Henry Emerson · 1856–1936
Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936) was born on May 13 at his family's sugar plantation, La Palma Estate, near Encrucijada, Cuba, to an American father, Henry Ezekiel Emerson, and British mother, Jane Harris Billing. A distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Samuel Morse, he spent his early childhood amid the island's landscapes before moving to Wilmington, Delaware, during the American Civil War ...