Prints and Authors in the Time of Manet

Towing the Reed, from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

Platinum print, 1886
Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 1984.174

Emerson is considered a leading 19th-century landscape photographer, especially of genre scenes of rural life. His best works feature the inhabitants and scenery of the East Anglia region of England. This is one of 40 platinum prints that the artist made for his series Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, published in 1886.