Haymaking in Norfolk Broads
Also titled Hooioogst in Norfolk Broads
Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
1885 - 1886
- Medium
- tracing paper, cardboard, photographic support
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 232 mm x width 287 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
This plate is from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. The photograph recalls the painting The Sand Bargeman by Jozef Israëls, also on view in this gallery. It expresses a comparable resignation to the hard manual labour of rural life. The evening light is particularly well rendered. The Pictorialists later used effects like this to elevate their photographs to the status of art.
