- Ricking the Reed
- from the series Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 11 1/4 in. (23.2 × 28.6 cm)
Mount: 11 5/16 × 16 5/16 in. (28.7 × 41.4 cm)
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P. H. Emerson drew his subjects from the environment and daily rituals of rural life in East Anglia, the marshy coastal region northeast of London. He passed along his expertise in more than a half-dozen books, the first and most important of which was Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, lavishly illustrated with platinum prints such as this one. Instead of straightforward documentation or contrived tableaux, Emerson opted for a more impressionist vision, inspired by the work of painters such as Jean-François Millet. Emerson blazed a trail that would be followed by the American Pictorialists, the Photo-Secession, and modern photography.
Provenance[Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts]; purchased by MFAH, 2000.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, top right: S2034
Inscribed in red, verso, center: 27
Printed in black, center of cover sheet: PLATE XXVII. // RICKING THE REED
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