Peter Henry Emerson
Taking Up the Eel-Net

ArtistBritish, born Cuba, 1856–1936
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Taking Up the Eel-Net
  • from the series Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
Datec. 1885
Place depictedEngland
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 11 3/16 in. (19.1 × 28.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 11 3/16 in. (19.1 × 28.4 cm)
Mount: 11 7/16 × 16 5/16 in. (29.1 × 41.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by "One Great Night in November, 1985"
Object number85.295
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing 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.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top right in pencil "913"

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Setting the Bow-Net
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
2004.431
Gunner Working Up to Fowl
Peter Henry Emerson
1886
Platinum print
94.438
A Norfolk Boat-Yard
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
2004.433
The Fringe of the Marsh
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
2004.432
Ricking the Reed
Peter Henry Emerson
1886
Platinum print
2000.575
A Reed-Cutter at Work
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
96.682
A Ruined Water-Mill
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
2000.317
Cantley: Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
2000.318
Cattle on the Marshes
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
91.574
The Haunt of the Pike
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
88.342
A Broadman's Cottage
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
84.727
cropped recto of sheet
Peter Henry Emerson
c. 1885
Platinum print
2012.623