Cantley Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide, plate XIV from "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" / Peter Henry Emerson
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- Accession Number
- 2002/2.234.2
- Title
- Cantley Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide, plate XIV from "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads"
- Artist
- Peter Henry Emerson
- Artist Nationality
- British
- Artist Life Dates
- 1856-1936
- Medium and Support
- platinum print on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1887
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- United Kingdom (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United Kingdom (nation)
- Dimensions
- 29.3 cm x 41.6 cm (11 9/16 in. x 16 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Photograph
- Primary Object Type
- black and white print
- Secondary Object Classification
- Photograph
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- This photograph is horizontally oriented and portrays a marshy shoreline. The foreground is filled with rushes. The horizon line, in the upper portion of the work, depicts homes, a windmill in the distance, and patches of water. Bare trees also dot this outdoor scene.
- Subject Matter
- Initially trained as a physician, Emerson purchased his first camera in 1881 while a student at Cambridge University; in 1886 he abandoned medicine for photography. "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads" was a photographic album that Emerson co-authored with the English painter Thomas F. Goodall (1856–1944). This work shows the artist’s deep connection with the broads (or marshes) of the Suffolk landscape near Norfolk, a subject matter found in nearly all his works. He often portrayed these watery lowlands with a very high horizon line. Here, the sharp, staccato accents of the reeds in the water of the foreground diminish the viewer’s sense of spatial recession, an effect that is further enhanced by the nearly abstract patterning of the reeds in contrast to the simple rounded masses of the huts and houses.
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- settlements and landscapes
- the natural world
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- wetlands
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3591 x 2340
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2002/2.234.2
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"Cantley Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide, plate XIV from "Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads"; Peter Henry Emerson." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2002-sl-2.234.2/2002_2_234_2.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.