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Peter Henry Emerson — Towing the Reed
Peter Henry Emerson

Towing the Reed

1886

Industrial activity harmonizes with natural rhythms in this carefully composed scene, where boat and cargo move through waters rendered luminous by platinum's characteristic tonality.

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

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Peter Henry Emerson, Towing the Reed, 1886

Industrial activity harmonizes with natural rhythms in this carefully composed scene, where boat and cargo move through waters rendered luminous by platinum's characteristic tonality.

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

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Naturalistic, Monochrome, Photograph, Landscape, Water, Nature, Platinum Print, British, Rural

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art