Taking Up The Eel-Net | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: P2001.12
People: Peter Henry Emerson, British, English (Cuba 1856 - 1936 Falmouth, Cornwall, England)
Title: Taking Up The Eel-Net
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Plate VII of Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886)
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: 1885
Places: Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture: British
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/167850

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Platinum print
Dimensions: image: 18.8 x 28.4 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
mount: 28.6 x 39.3 cm (11 1/4 x 15 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts, sold to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Richard and Ronay Menschel
Accession Year: 2001
Object Number: P2001.12
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010

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