# Haymaking in Norfolk Broads

- By: Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
- Date: 1885 - 1886
- Medium: tracing paper, cardboard, photographic support
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 232 mm x width 287 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-F80156--133c7e0730b94cbb783b859175c5fc28)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/SgidU/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.