Peter Henry Emerson
Coming Home from the Marshes

ArtistBritish, born Cuba, 1856–1936
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Coming Home from the Marshes
  • from the series Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Datec. 1885
Place depictedEngland
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 8 × 11 1/4 in. (20.3 × 28.6 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 11 1/4 in. (20.3 × 28.6 cm)
Mount: 11 1/4 × 16 1/8 in. (28.6 × 41 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins
Object number2012.623
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance[Swann Auction Galleries, New York]; purchased by Michael Marvins and Michele Marvins, Houston, around 1985; given to MFAH, 2012.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
printed on cover sheet: PLATE 1 / COMING HOME FROM THE MARSHES

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