id:			147951
accession number:	1974.49
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The Compleat Angler: Footbridge Near Chingford, 1888. Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936), written by Izaak Walton (British (modern), 1593–1683), published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington. Photogravure; image: 18.6 x 14.4 cm (7 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1974.49

title:				Footbridge Near Chingford
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series:				The Compleat Angler
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creation date:			1888
creation date earliest:		1888
creation date latest:		1888
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	photogravure
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Photogravure
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936)  - artist
Peter Henry Emerson British, b. Cuba, 1856-1936

Trained as a physician, Peter Henry Emerson abandoned medicine soon after receiving his degree in order to take up photography. His thorough command of the medium and his interest in reproducing rural subjects in a simple, direct manner led to an approach that he called naturalism. Emerson argued vehemently that the inherent qualities of photography should be used to portray subjects in a manner that eschewed artifice and the unnatural intrusions of the photographer's aesthetic style. This was in distinction to the academicism that Emerson despised, exemplified by the artificially constructed, often cloying images of Oscar G. Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson.
	Emerson's several illustrated volumes of rural British life, beginning with Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886), combined a clarity of vision derived from the advanced science of his day with a retrospective romanticism derived from French and British painting. The result was a unique style that helped direct photography away from artifice toward the visual integrity now associated with modernism and straight photography. Emerson's attempts as a writer and speaker to develop a theoretical base for his style, while highly regarded, are today thought to be a less powerful statement of his opinions than the work he produced. T.W.F.
* Izaak Walton (British (modern), 1593–1683)  - author
British author, biographer, and poet, 1593-1683
* Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington  - publisher

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measurements: Image: 18.6 x 14.4 cm (7 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in ink on recto: "P.H. Emerson"; in pencil on verso: "17843.A", "pl. XXV"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1974
	opening date:   1975-03-11T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, Ohio, 1979: "Selection of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art." No exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: May 21,1974
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 146
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IMAGES

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