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Gathering water lilies – Vintage Print

Gathering water lilies, [published 1886] — historic photograph
Gathering water lilies, [published 1886]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Two figures in a rowboat gather water lilies from the still water of the Norfolk Broads, the shallow lakes of eastern England that were formed when medieval peat digging flooded the land. The image appeared as plate 9 in *Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads* (1886), a book by the photographer P.H. Emerson and the painter T.F. Goodall. Emerson championed a soft, naturalistic style of photography, and the platinum printing process, which yields fine tonal gradations, suits the quiet scene. The book pairs such images with text about the region's marshes, reed beds and working boatmen.

Created / published[published 1886]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum.
GenreBook illustrations 1880-1890.Platinum prints 1880-1890.
NotesIllus. in: Life and landscape on the Norfolk Broads / P.H. Emerson and T.F. Goodall. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886, pl. 9.
SubjectsWater lilies--England--Norfork--1880-1890. Rowboats--England--Norfolk--1880-1890. Broads, The (England)--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 998 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165169

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