Peter Henry Emerson
Towing the Reed
1885
Scroll
Peter Henry Emerson
Towing the Reed
1885
Physical Qualities
Platinum print, Sheet: 222 x 271 mm. (22.2 x 27.1 cm.)
Image: 222 x 271 mm. (22.2 x 27.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.301
Nancy Newhall, P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography As a Fine Art, New York: Aperture, Inc., 1975, ill., p. 203. Peter Turner and Richard Wood, P.H. Emerson: Photographer of Norfolk, Boston: David R. Godine, 1974, ill. pl. 9.
Inscribed: FACE: clean. VERSO: (pencil) l.r. '0086'; (white tape with blue writing) l.r. '5'; (red pencil) center '26'. BACKING PAPER FACE: (printed in black ink) center 'PLATE XXVI /TOWING THE REED'. BACKING PAPER VERSO: clean.
