Cattle on the Marshes
Medium
Platinum print, pl. XXX from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Dimensions
18.9 × 28.3 cm (image/paper); 28.5 × 40.6 (album page)
Classification
platinum print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145587
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 ...