DETAILS
- Artist
- Peter Henry Emerson
- Date
- 1886
- Medium
- platinum print
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Photography
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
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THE ARTIST
Peter Henry Emerson
Peter Henry Emerson championed "straight photography" as an art form, capturing the natural beauty of rural East Anglia in works like "Poling the Marsh Hay."
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