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accession number:	2019.99
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.99
updated:		2024-03-26 02:02:06.707000

Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads: The Village of Horning, 1886. Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936). Platinum print; image and paper: 22.3 x 16.7 cm (8 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.); mounted: 41 x 28.6 cm (16 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey 2019.99

title:				The Village of Horning
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series:				Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads
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creation date:			1886
creation date earliest:		1886
creation date latest:		1886
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creditline:			Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey
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culture:	England , 19th century
technique:	platinum print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - British 19th Century
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.
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measurements: image and paper: 22.3 x 16.7 cm (8 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.); Mounted: 41 x 28.6 cm (16 1/8 x 11 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Imprinted on paper sheet adhered to verso of mount: “PLATE V./THE VILLAGE OF HORNING”
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Halsted Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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	Arielle Kozloff Brodkey and Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1976-2014
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	Arielle Kozloff Brodkey, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2014-2019
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 3, 2019
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