Peter Henry Emerson
Eel-Picking in Suffolk Waters

ArtistBritish, born Cuba, 1856–1936
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Eel-Picking in Suffolk Waters
  • from the album Pictures of East Anglian Life
Datec. 1886, printed 1888
Place depictedEngland
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 7 3/16 × 9 1/8 in. (18.3 × 23.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 10 9/16 in. (23.2 × 26.8 cm)
Mount: 13 5/8 × 16 13/16 in. (34.6 × 42.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert Hershkowitz Limited in memory of Sam Wagstaff
Object number2014.608
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Robert Hershkowitz Limited, Sussex, England]; given to MFAH, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
printed bottom left corner of the image: P.H.EMERSON.
verso in pencil uppper left corner: 7033

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