Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

44 c PETER H. EMERSON (1856-1936) Suite of 3 photographs from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, including River Bure at Coltishall, The Village of Horning, and An Autumn Morning. Platinum prints, the images measuring 8 3 / 4 x6 1 / 2 to 7 1 / 4 x10 1 / 2 inches (22.2x26.7 cm.), the original mounts 11 1 / 4 x16 1 / 4 inches (28.6x41.3 cm.). 1886 [3,500/4,500] The first print from Phillips, New York, May 22, 1982, lot 737; the second Sotheby’s London, June 28, 1985, lot 177; the third Phillips, New York, May 9, 1981, lot 22; to a Private New York Collector. Newhall, P.H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as Fine Art (Aperture), p. 170 (the first) and 173 (the second).

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