# Towing the Reed by Boat

- By: Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
- Date: 1885 - 1886
- Medium: tracing paper, cardboard, paper
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 220 mm x width 272 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-F80155--5474683a0a8c8156f80e55158ac11caa)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/gGnAe/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.