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Peter Henry Emerson — The Last of the Ebb-Great Yarmouth from Breydon
Peter Henry Emerson

The Last of the Ebb-Great Yarmouth from Breydon

1887

Expansive tidal flats stretch toward Great Yarmouth in Emerson's panoramic finale, capturing the vast Norfolk landscape that shaped both his artistic vision and the lives he documented.

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Photoetching, pl. XXX from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)

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