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Peter Henry Emerson

'Gathering Water-Lilies'

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April 21, 02:23 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Peter Henry Emerson

1856 - 1936

'Gathering Water-Lilies'

platinum print, plate IX from the album Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, mounted on the original folio leaf, the printed title tissue overleaf attached, framed, 1886

image: 7 ¾ by 11 ½ in. (19.7 by 29.2 cm.)

frame: 17 ¾ by 21 ¾ in. (45.1 by 55.2 cm.)

Pam Roberts, PhotoHistorica: Landmarks in Photography, Rare Images from the Collection of The Royal Photographic Society (London, 2000), p. 214-5

John Taylor, The Old Order and The New, P. H. Emerson and Photograph, 1885-1895 (London, 2007), p. 68

Nissan N. Perez, A Rare Gift: The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photographs (Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 2010), p. 54