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 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.
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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.
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