# Gathering Water-Lilies

- By: Peter Henry Emerson (Cuba, 1856–1936)
- Date: 1885 - 1886
- Medium: tracing paper, cardboard, photographic support
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 198 mm x width 290 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-F80158--a1a1ff7274ab780b9cc9b1cf517f195f)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/EXKti/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)

Emerson made ten books of carefully composed photographs of the English countryside and its inhabitants between 1886 and 1895. These books were expensive, and printed in a small edition. Gathering Water-Lilies and A Rushy Shore both appeared in 1886 in Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, which presented an idyllic image of this area.