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Farmworkers during the Barley Harvest in Suffolk
Also titled Boeren tijdens de gerstoogst in Suffolk
Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
1883 - 1888
- Medium
- tracing paper, cardboard, paper
- Classification
- photomechanical print
- Dimensions
- height 235 mm x width 243 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Johan Huizinga Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Unlike most of Emerson’s photographs, this one from Pictures of East Anglian Life seems rather posed. Perhaps he was thinking of the paintings by the famous French Realists Gustave Courbet and Jules Breton. He wrote the following about this in his book: ‘I have endeavoured in the plates to express sympathetically various phases of peasant and fisherfolk life...’
