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Peter Henry Emerson — Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew
Peter Henry Emerson

Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew

1890

Emerson's ambitious photographic album chronicles life along England's tidal waters through thirty photoetchings, representing a significant achievement in late Victorian documentary photography and book arts.

Medium
Photoetchings (30)

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Peter Henry Emerson, Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew, 1890

Emerson's ambitious photographic album chronicles life along England's tidal waters through thirty photoetchings, representing a significant achievement in late Victorian documentary photography and book arts.

Medium
Photoetchings (30)
Year
1890
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Naturalistic, Photography, Documentary, Landscape, Photoetching, Water, Nature, Narrative, British, Rural

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art