Scanned from a slide by Adam Pape. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

When the Day's Work is Done

Artist Henry Peach Robinson (English, 1830-1901)

Publisher Sun Artists

CultureEnglish

DateJanuary 1890

MediumPhotogravure

DimensionsOverall, Support: 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Overall, Image: 5 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (14.9 x 18.1 cm)

InscribedLL, below image: "H. P. Robinson"

Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number93.19.5D

Not on view

DescriptionSUN ARTISTS was a 19th-century British journal devoted to photography. This January 1890 issue Number 2 contains text by Andrew Pringle and four photogravures by Henry Peach Robinson. H. P. Robinson was the leading proponent of Pictorial Effect. This was a style of photography that emulated painting by asembling multiple negatives to create a picture. This photogravure titled _When the Day's Work is Done_, depicts an interior scene before a fireplace with an elderly man and woman seated at a table, the man is reading.

Label TextHenry Peach Robinson English (1830-1901) When The Day's Work is Done, January 1890 Photogravure Purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith and Art Purchase Funds 93.19.5 d Henry Peach Robinson was the leading proponent of Pictorial Effect. This was a style of photography that emulated painting by assembling multiple negatives to create a picture. For more information on Robinson, see the adjacent label for Peter Henry Emerson. Five of his gravures are in the Chrysler collection. Edited By: GLY Edited Date: 11/07/2003Exhibition History"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.