“Pictures from Life In Field And Fen”, 1887

A Fisherman At Home

At Plough, The End Of The Furrow

A Dame's School

A Misty Morning On The North Sea

A Spring Idyl

A Suffolk Dike

A Winter's Morning

An Autumn Pastoral

Confessions

Crusoe's Island, River Granta

Going To Market, A Winter Scene

In the Barley-Sele

On Breydon Water, Sea-Fog Coming Up

On Southwold Marshes

Sunrise At Sea

The Faggot Cutters

The Grafter

The Mangold Harvest

The Poacher

The Stickleback Catcher

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All images from “Pictures from Life in Field and Fen” by Peter Henry Emerson (1887)

Source The British Library via Europeana

February 23rd, 2012

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2 comments to “Pictures from Life In Field And Fen”, 1887

• Elroy

  February 24, 2012 at 4:47 am · Reply

  These are phenomenal…The color, the composition, the subjects, everything.

• Doug Leary

  February 25, 2012 at 8:21 pm · Reply

  Several of these pictures were shot in the same yard. The Fisherman at Home, Dame’s School, and Confessions have the same fence in the background, just different furniture set out. There’s a large pitcher that appears in both of the first two photos. It looks like these are posed illustrations of daily life rather than candid shots. I wonder if they were originally post cards.