The Compleat Angler
1880s
Medium
Photogravure, plate XII from the album "The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Volume I" (1888)
Dimensions
Image: 12.7 × 18.5 cm (5 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 14.7 × 20.2 cm (5 13/16 × 8 in.); Album page: 24.8 × 32 cm (9 13/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145610
Rights
Public Domain
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 ...