Towing the Reed by Boat
Also titled Vervoer van het riet per boot
Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
1885 - 1886
- Medium
- tracing paper, cardboard, paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 220 mm x width 272 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Used in the construction of houses, reed was an important product in East Anglia. Emerson shows how the reed was harvested and processed in various photographs in Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. Here we see a man on a towing path pulling a fully loaded boat. This more sociological angle typifies Emerson’s publications.
