Peter Henry Emerson
Snipe Shooting

ArtistBritish, born Cuba, 1856–1936
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Snipe Shooting
  • from the series Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Datec. 1885
Place depictedEngland
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 × 11 5/16 in. (18.7 × 28.7 cm)
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 11 5/16 in. (18.7 × 28.7 cm)
Mount: 11 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (29.2 × 41.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Isaac Arnold, Jr. and Roy Cullen in honor of Meredith J. Long at "One Great Night in November, 1984"
Object number84.303
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Laurence Miller Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1984.
Exhibition History"Past/Present: Photography from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 8, 1991–February 9, 1992.

"Sports: Leisure-Time and Professional," Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, May 30–September 4, 2001.

"Sports Photography from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 13–September 21, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left in pencil "BR568"
printed center of cover sheet "PLATE X. / SNIPE-SHOOTING"

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