Peter Henry Emerson
A Ruined Water-Mill

ArtistBritish, born Cuba, 1856–1936
CultureBritish
Titles
  • A Ruined Water-Mill
  • from the series Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Datec. 1885
Place depictedEngland
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 10 5/8 × 8 7/8 in. (27 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 8 7/8 in. (27 × 22.5 cm)
Mount: 16 3/16 × 11 7/16 in. (41.1 × 29.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Efrem Kurtz
Object number2000.317
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceRobert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Mill House, Poynings, Sussex England 1985.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom left in pencil reading vertically "294514 / 4[circled]"
Printed on the tissue overlay"PLATE XI. / A RUINED WATER-MILL"


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