Pictures of East Anglian Life

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PETER HENRY EMERSON (1856-1936)
Pictures of East Anglian Life
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888. With 32 photogravures and 15 small illustrations. Photogravures, varying sizes from 3 x 3in. (8.9 x 8.9cm.) to 11 x 13in. (28.6 x 33cm.) or reverse. Each signed in plate; each with printed title and plate number on tissue guard. Text and 3 appendices by Emerson. Inscribed H.H. La Thangue with the authors best wishes March 1888 by Emerson in ink on half-title (detached). Illustration/plate list, contents, title, frontispiece and half-title. Leather-backed cloth boards, cover illustration by T.F. Goodall. Folio.

Literature

See: McWilliam & Sekules, Life and Landscape: P.H. Emerson Art and Photography in East Anglia 1885-1900, pp. 36, 113-115; Newhall, P.H. Emerson The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art, pp. 179, 189, 191-192, 195, 197, 199, 211, 221.

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Lot Essay

This was a presentation copy to the British painter Henry Herbert La Thangue (1857-1929) who worked with T.F. Goodall and Stanhope Forbes at Dulwich College. La Thangue later settled in Norfolk, where Emerson and Goodall were also working and produced the publication Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886). Emerson's photographic theories influenced La Thangue and his circle of artists.

Pictures of East Anglian Life was published in an edition of 250, although 500 were originally advertised. According to McWilliam and Sekules, plate XIX A Way Across the Marshes, printed by the Autotype Company, became unusable after 30 pulls and was replaced by Mending the Wherry (p.36). This volume includes the first subject. Titles available upon request.

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