Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Medium
Platinum prints from glass negatives
Dimensions
Images: 12 x 18 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.) to 23 x 30 cm (9 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.) Binding: 30.5 x 41.9 x 5.1 cm (12 x 16 1/2 x 2 in.)
Classification
Books
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2008
Accession Number
2008.669 (1–40)
Tags
About the Artist
Peter Henry Emerson|Thomas Frederick Goodall|Valentine of Dundee · 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 ...