Quanting the marsh hay, Norfolk Broads, England – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Quanting the marsh hay, Norfolk Broads, England in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Quanting the marsh hay, Norfolk Broads, England
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Here a boatman works a quant, the long pole pushed against the bottom to move a flat-bottomed boat through shallow water where sails are of little use. The boat is loaded with marsh hay cut from the reed-fringed meadows of the Norfolk Broads, a slow, physical trade that Peter Henry Emerson and T.F. Goodall treated as part of the landscape they wanted to record. The picture appears as plate 16 in their 1886 book *Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads*, and its platinum print process gives it the soft, even tones that Emerson favored in his naturalistic work.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : platinum. |
| Genre | Platinum prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads ... / by P.H. Emerson, B.A., M.B. (Cantab.) and T.F. Goodall. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, pl. 16. |
| Subjects | Boats--England--Broads, The--1880-1890. Harvesting--England--Broads, The--1880-1890. Hay--England--Broads, The--1880-1890. Wetlands--England--Broads, The--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,422 × 1,148 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216397 |
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