DETAILS
- Artist
- Peter Henry Emerson
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Platinum prints from glass negatives
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Images: 12 x 18 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/16 in.) to 23 x 30 cm (9 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2008
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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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