On the River Bure

Artist Peter Henry Emerson (British (born Cuba), 1856 - 1936)

CultureBritish

Date1886

MediumPlatinum print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 5 1/4 × 9 1/4 in. (13.3 × 23.5 cm)
Overall: 11 1/4 × 16 5/16 in. (28.6 × 41.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number83.226

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a platinum print photograph.

Label TextPeter Henry Emerson English, b. Cuba, 1856–1936 On the River Bure, 1886 Platinum print (photograph) Museum purchase 83.226 Exhibition History"Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter Henry Emerson", The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 25 - June 7, 1994; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, June 21 - September 11, 1994. "History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, June 15 - August 22, 1999. "History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, Fall, 2001. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "The Old Order and The New: P. H. Emerson and Photography, 1885-1895," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., July 2 - November 16, 2008. "Photographic Histories," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - August 17, 2014.Published References"Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter Henry Emerson", The Chrysler Museum BULLETIN, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring 1994), ill. p. 7.