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Peter Henry Emerson — A Broadman's Cottage
Peter Henry Emerson

A Broadman's Cottage

1886

Captured with the subtle tonal range of platinum printing, this intimate view documents traditional rural life in the Norfolk wetlands with ethnographic precision.

Medium
Platinum print, pl. III from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)

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Peter Henry Emerson, A Broadman's Cottage, 1886

Captured with the subtle tonal range of platinum printing, this intimate view documents traditional rural life in the Norfolk wetlands with ethnographic precision.

Medium
Platinum print, pl. III from the album "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" (1886)
Year
1886
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Monochrome, Serene, Photograph, Landscape, 1880s, Platinum Print, Cottage, British, Rural, Pictorialism

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art