Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff
Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936)
published by Sampson Low, Marston, Seale and Riverton (with T.F. Goodall)
1886
- Medium
- platinum print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.6 x 27.6 cm (5 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn by exchange and Director's Contingent Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Reacting against the theatrical, sentimental photogaphs made by his contemporaries, Peter Henry Emerson pursued a direct and more naturalistic form of photography. He discovered his subjects in familiar scenes from everyday life and captured them on film. This image was included among the 40 prints illustrating Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, one of many books Emerson published on the marsh dwellers of East Anglia. In this photograph the word "schoof" refers to the sheaf of marsh plants that have been harvested to be dried and stored at home.
