Marsh Leaves

Peter Henry Emerson

published 1895

Marsh Leaves by Peter Henry Emerson

Medium

1 vol: ill: 16 photogravures on wove paper

Dimensions

open: 19.05 × 29.21 × 2.54 cm (7 1/2 × 11 1/2 × 1 in.) closed: 19.05 × 14.61 × 4.45 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.) page size: 28.4 × 18.4 cm (11 3/16 × 7 1/4 in.) image: 7.62 × 12.7 cm (3 × 5 in.) sheet: 17.15 × 26.67 cm (6 3/4 × 10 1/2 in.)

Classification

Volume

Department

CPH

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.113.1

About the Artist

Peter Henry Emerson · 18561936

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 ...

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