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Farmworkers during the Barley Harvest in Suffolk
Peter Henry Emerson (mentioned on object), 1883 - 1888
Unlike most of Emerson’s photographs, this one from Pictures of East Anglian Life seems rather posed. Perhaps he was thinking of the paintings by the famous French Realists Gustave Courbet and Jules Breton. He wrote the following about this in his book: ‘I have endeavoured in the plates to express sympathetically various phases of peasant and fisherfolk life...’
- Artwork typephotomechanical print
- Object numberRP-F-2005-107-237
- Dimensionsheight 235 mm x width 243 mm, height 427 mm x width 343 mm