Old Hulks
Medium
Photoetching, pl. IV from the album "Wild Life on a Tidal Water: The Adventures of a House-Boat and Her Crew" (1890)
Dimensions
Image: 16.4 × 20.2 cm (6 1/2 × 8 in.); Paper: 24.5 × 30 cm (9 11/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
229736
About the Artist
Peter Henry Emerson · 1856–1936
Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936) was born on May 13 at his family's sugar plantation, La Palma Estate, near Encrucijada, Cuba, to an American father, Henry Ezekiel Emerson, and British mother, Jane Harris Billing. A distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Samuel Morse, he spent his early childhood amid the island's landscapes before moving to Wilmington, Delaware, during the American Civil War ...