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Peter Henry Emerson — The Old Order and the New
Peter Henry Emerson

The Old Order and the New

1886

Symbolically contrasting traditional and modern ways of life, the composition reflects late Victorian anxieties about industrialization's impact on rural England.

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

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Peter Henry Emerson, The Old Order and the New, 1886

Symbolically contrasting traditional and modern ways of life, the composition reflects late Victorian anxieties about industrialization's impact on rural England.

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

Related themes

Monochrome, Photography, Serene, Documentary, 19th Century, Landscape, Naturalism, Platinum Print, British, Rural

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art