Peter Henry Emerson
Decayed Fishermen
1887
Age and hardship mark the faces of Norfolk fishermen in Emerson's poignant social document, revealing his deep empathy for working-class subjects often ignored by Victorian art.
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- Photoetching, pl. XII from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
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