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Haymaking at the Norfolk Broads
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This plate is from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. The photograph recalls the painting The Sand Bargeman by Jozef Israëls, also on view in this gallery. It expresses a comparable resignation to the hard manual labour of rural life. The evening light is particularly well rendered. The Pictorialists later used effects like this to elevate their photographs to the status of art.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineHaymaking in Norfolk Broads. 1885 - 1886. Peter Henry Emerson. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
