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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.324
People
Peter Henry Emerson, British, English (Cuba 1856 - 1936 Falmouth, Cornwall, England)
Title
A Slippery Path, Winter Scene
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Plate XXIII from Pictures of East Anglian Life (London, 1888)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
c. 1888
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284931

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Photogravure
Dimensions
sheet: 42.3 x 33 cm (16 5/8 x 13 in.)
image: 23 x 20.5 cm (9 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: P.H. Emerson
  • inscription: recto, bottom right, inscribed in negative: P.H. Emerson
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: 23

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York. on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1977 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.324
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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