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The image shows a frozen pond with snow-covered banks, a bare tree on the right, a person walking away, and another figure on a wooden bridge. Snow blankets the landscape, with distant trees and bushes also covered. The scene is depicted in muted tones of grey and sepia, giving it a serene and quiet feel.
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The image shows a frozen pond with snow-covered banks, a bare tree on the right, a person walking away, and another figure on a wooden bridge. Snow blankets the landscape, with distant trees and bushes also covered. The scene is depicted in muted tones of grey and sepia, giving it a serene and quiet feel.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

A Winter's Morning

Peter Henry Emerson

Date
1887
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 17.7 x 28.7 cm (6 15/16 x 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 21.5 x 32.4 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/4 in.) mount: 40 x 50.8 cm (15 3/4 x 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph · Print
Accession number
2010.28.1
Credit line
Carolyn Brody Fund and Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • Landscape
  • topographical
  • landscape
  • Lake
  • photogravure
Provenance

(Robert Herskowitz, Ltd., Sussex, England); NGA purchase, 2010.

Inscription

on image, printed lower right: P.H. EMERSON.; on mount, upper left corner printed in brown ink: 1

NGA object ID 150425. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.