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Peter Henry Emerson
Setting Up the Bow-Net1886

Not on view
Black and white photograph of two men with brown skin working with a hoop-framed fishing net at the edge of a reed-lined waterway
Artist or Maker
Peter Henry Emerson
Title
Setting Up the Bow-Net
Place Made
England
Date Made
1886
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
Image: 10 11/16 × 8 13/16 in. (27.15 × 22.38 cm) Primary support: 10 11/16 × 8 13/16 in. (27.15 × 22.38 cm) Secondary support: 16 1/4 × 11 3/8 in. (41.28 × 28.89 cm) Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Sue and Albert Dorskind
Accession Number
AC1996.165.246
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography