Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff (1886): Art, History and Details

Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff (1886) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936); Sampson Low, Marston, Seale and Riverton (with T.F. Goodall).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Reacting against the theatrical, sentimental photogaphs made by his contemporaries, Peter Henry Emerson pursued a direct and more naturalistic form of photography. He discovered his subjects in familiar scenes from everyday life and captured them on film. This image was included among the 40 prints illustrating Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, one of many books Emerson published on the marsh dwellers of East Anglia. In this photograph the word "schoof" refers to the sheaf of marsh plants that have been harvested to be dried and stored at home.

Object facts

• Title: Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff
• Date: 1886
• Creator attribution: Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936); Sampson Low, Marston, Seale and Riverton (with T.F. Goodall)
• Culture: England
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: platinum print
• Dimensions: Image: 13.6 x 27.6 cm (5 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
• Collection: PH - British 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1983.206

Collection credit

Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn by exchange and Director's Contingent Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

View the collection record

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