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The image shows a watery landscape with a house and a line of bare trees along the low horizon. The trees and house are silhouetted against the overcast sky. The color palette is monochromatic with various shades of gray. The water reflects the sky and surrounding vegetation, and there are grass and small shrubs along the bank. The water extends into the distance on the left, and muted light creates soft shadows, giving the scene a calm and slightly dreary atmosphere.
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The image shows a watery landscape with a house and a line of bare trees along the low horizon. The trees and house are silhouetted against the overcast sky. The color palette is monochromatic with various shades of gray. The water reflects the sky and surrounding vegetation, and there are grass and small shrubs along the bank. The water extends into the distance on the left, and muted light creates soft shadows, giving the scene a calm and slightly dreary atmosphere.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

An Autumn Morning

Peter Henry Emerson and T.F. Goodall

Date
1886
Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 18 x 26.5 cm (7 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.) page size: 28.2 x 40.7 cm (11 1/8 x 16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
1995.63.1.ll
Credit line
Gift of Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • platinum print
  • daily life
  • genre
Provenance

Harvey S. Shipley Miller and J. Randall Plummer, Fort Washington, PA; gift (partial and promised) to NGA, 1995.

Inscription

on interleaving tissue, printed in black ink: Plate XXXVIII. / AN AUTUMN MORNING

NGA object ID 75251. 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.