The Gladdon-Cutter's Return
The Gladdon-Cutter's Return
The Gladdon-Cutter's Return
The Gladdon-Cutter's Return

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The Gladdon-Cutter's Return,

1886

Peter Henry Emerson, English, born Cuba, 1856–1936
x1987-34
Peter Henry Emerson believed photography to be an art form, on a par with painting and printmaking. This photograph of a boatman gathering bulrushes for thatch is one of forty published in his book Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, a series that eulogized rural life on the Broads—a picturesque area of small rivers and ponds situated on the English Channel, northeast of London. Emerson photographed his subjects directly from nature in a single exposure and printed his plates without retouching.
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Title
The Gladdon-Cutter's Return
Dates

1886

Maker
Peter Henry Emerson
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
23 × 28.6 cm (9 1/16 × 11 1/4 in.) mount: 28.9 x 40.9 cm. (11 3/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Mrs. Max Adler
Object Number
x1987-34
Place Depicted

Europe, England, Norfolk

Culture
British
Type
photographs, platinum process, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
mounting, platinum process
Subject
boats, landscapes (representations), trees, grass, men, figures (representations), rivers, marshes

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