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Peter Henry Emerson — The Clay Mill (Norfolk)
Peter Henry Emerson

The Clay Mill (Norfolk)

1883

Rural industry meets artistic vision in Emerson's documentation of Norfolk's clay processing, rendered with the subtle tonal gradations that made photogravure the preferred medium for late 19th-century pictorialist photographers.

Medium
Photogravure, pl. XXI from the album "Pictures of East Anglian Life" (1888)

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Peter Henry Emerson, The Clay Mill (Norfolk), 1883

Rural industry meets artistic vision in Emerson's documentation of Norfolk's clay processing, rendered with the subtle tonal gradations that made photogravure the preferred medium for late 19th-century pictorialist photographers.

Medium
Photogravure, pl. XXI from the album "Pictures of East Anglian Life" (1888)
Year
1883
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Pastoral, Industrial, Monochrome, Atmospheric, Documentary, 19th Century, Landscape, Photogravure, British, Rural

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