Peter Henry Emerson
British Photographer · 1856–1936
85 works on LinkedCulture
Born in Cuba and raised there and in the United States before moving to England as a teenager, physician and scientist Peter Henry Emerson took up photography at age twenty-six. Often described as a difficult zealot, he vocally championed a naturalistic approach to imagemaking. He favored rural subjects presented in a simple, direct manner. Emerson's influential 1889 book *Naturalistic Photography
Works
A Backwater on the Lea
Getty Museum · 1888
A Corner of Old Yarmouth
Getty Museum · 1890
A Corner of the Farm-Yard
Getty Museum · 1895
![[A Daughter of the Marshlands]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/fe66257c-6da9-4eb8-87d2-a1eb9ac331ed/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[A Daughter of the Marshlands]
Getty Museum · 1893
![[A Frosty Morning]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/bb1f20ba-4bdc-46ee-9372-1617c9107167/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[A Frosty Morning]
Getty Museum · 1893
![[A Frosty Morning at Coltishall]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/396b9821-a2ca-4940-80e8-aae6ef267038/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[A Frosty Morning at Coltishall]
Getty Museum · 1893
![[A Misty Morning at Norwich]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b6ff80b6-6cc8-4247-a23d-078ca2584e83/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[A Misty Morning at Norwich]
Getty Museum · 1893
Amwell Church
Getty Museum · 1888
A Rope Walk
Getty Museum · 1890
A Rope Walk
Getty Museum · 1890
![[At the Ferry - A Misty Morning]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/296cd264-17de-48d3-ac2b-54b6bde4ea85/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[At the Ferry - A Misty Morning]
Getty Museum · 1893
A Winter Pastoral
Getty Museum · 1895
A Yarmouth Row
Getty Museum · 1890
A Yarmouth Row
Getty Museum · 1890
Bleak Winter
Getty Museum · 1895
Bound for the North River
Getty Museum · 1890
Bound for the North Sea
Getty Museum · 1890
Breydon Smelters
Getty Museum · 1890
Breydon Smelters
Getty Museum · 1890
Broxbourne Church
Getty Museum · 1888
![[Buckenham Ferry]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/34ae8b45-6949-4b12-8ab3-4509cc40e60c/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Buckenham Ferry]
Getty Museum · 1893
![[Children of the Broads]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/5f5c6150-3605-407c-b021-ce47d115a83e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Children of the Broads]
Getty Museum · 1893
Decayed Fishermen
Getty Museum · 1890
Field's Weir, Near Rye House
Getty Museum · 1888
Flowers of the Mere
Getty Museum · 1887
Getting Ready for Fishing
Getty Museum · 1890
Gnarled Thorn-Trees
Getty Museum · 1895
Great Yarmouth Harbour
Getty Museum · 1890
Hoddesdon, Herts
Getty Museum · 1888
In a Sail-Loft
Getty Museum · 1890
In Dock
Getty Museum · 1890
In Harbour
Getty Museum · 1890
In Harbour
Getty Museum · 1890
In the Yarmouth River
Getty Museum · 1890
Keeper's Cottage, Amwell Magna Fishery
Getty Museum · 1888
Low Water on Breydon
Getty Museum · 1890
![[Marshes By the North Sea]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/8f172f91-2880-4e63-8b8e-c3b8e8321646/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Marshes By the North Sea]
Getty Museum · 1893
![[Marsh Farm in Early Spring]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/d9840e5d-332c-4322-9559-c5af4b5848d3/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Marsh Farm in Early Spring]
Getty Museum · 1893
Marsh Weeds
Getty Museum · 1895
Mouth of the Old River Stout
Getty Museum · 1888
Mouth of the River Ash
Getty Museum · 1888
Old Hulks
Getty Museum · 1890
On English Lagoons: Being An Account of the Voyage of Two Amateur Wherrymen on the Norfolk & Suffolk Rivers & Broads.
Getty Museum · 1893
On Gorleston Sands
Getty Museum · 1890
On the Baulks
Getty Museum · 1890
On the Baulks
Getty Museum · 1890
On the Flood
Getty Museum · 1890
On the Look-Out
Getty Museum · 1890
Poplars and Pollards on the Lea, Near Broxbourne
Getty Museum · 1888
Return of the Shrimpers
Getty Museum · 1890
Rime Crystals
Getty Museum · 1895
Rope-Spinning
Getty Museum · 1890
![[Sheep on the Marshes]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/dbe14c1d-c278-44a4-b144-901fddcfd036/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[Sheep on the Marshes]
Getty Museum · 1893
Stanstead from the Lea
Getty Museum · 1888
The Black Pool, Near Hoddesdon
Getty Museum · 1888
The Bowling Green
Getty Museum · 1890
The Conspirators' Room, Old Rye House
Getty Museum · 1888
![[The Edge of the Broad]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/b647e49e-f3c0-4ece-9ffc-68d706c93d30/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Edge of the Broad]
Getty Museum · 1893
The Ferry
Getty Museum · 1890
The Ferry
Getty Museum · 1890
The First of the Herring
Getty Museum · 1890
The First of the Herring
Getty Museum · 1890
The Haunt of the Pike
Getty Museum · 1886
The Haysel
Getty Museum · 1887
The Last Gate
Getty Museum · 1895
The Lea, Near Hoddesdon
Getty Museum · 1888
The Lonely Fisher
Getty Museum · 1895
![[The Marshes in June]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/47e9bbbf-ab22-4f71-97ed-e2d302bf0d1d/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Marshes in June]
Getty Museum · 1893
![[The Moonlit River]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/6bedd9be-81e0-4b99-ba43-e3176ffea6be/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Moonlit River]
Getty Museum · 1893
The North River
Getty Museum · 1890
The October Hole, Near Hoddesdon
Getty Museum · 1888
The Old Rye House
Getty Museum · 1888
The Old Rye House Inn
Getty Museum · 1888
The Old Ship
Getty Museum · 1890
The Peaceful Harbour
Getty Museum · 1890
The Quays at Dinner-Time
Getty Museum · 1890
The River Stort
Getty Museum · 1888
The Shoot, Amwell Magna Fishery
Getty Museum · 1888
The Skirt of the Village
Getty Museum · 1887
The Snow Garden
Getty Museum · 1895
![[The Snowy Marshlands]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/69bb6af6-9714-491d-9976-9269790f6638/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Snowy Marshlands]
Getty Museum · 1893
![[The Village by the River]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/bc688981-ab55-473b-b132-dcd29ab0863e/full/808,/0/default.jpg)
[The Village by the River]
Getty Museum · 1893
Tidal Creek and Old Warehouses South of Southwold, Suffolk
Getty Museum · about 1886
Toil and Grime
Getty Museum · 1890
Ware, Herts
Getty Museum · 1888