Peter Henry Emerson
The Quays at Dinner-Time
1887
Workers pause for their midday meal along busy commercial quays in Emerson's humanistic study of industrial life, capturing both the dignity of labor and the rhythm of working-class routine.
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- Photoetching, pl. XIV from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
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