She Runs Home and Tells Her Mother All about It (1858): Art, History and Details

She Runs Home and Tells Her Mother All about It (1858) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henry Peach Robinson (British, 1830–1901).

The work and its context

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

Henry Peach Robinson was a leading writer and exponent of an approach to photography that was based on literary inspiration and the emulation of painting. Robinson portrayed pastoral landscapes or staged picturesque, narrative scenes of such stories as the Brothers Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood, which were immensely popular with Victorian audiences. In this tableau, Robinson carefully arranged his models to illustrate the safe return home of Little Red Riding Hood and to emphasize the story's moral of innocence and obedience.

Object facts

• Title: She Runs Home and Tells Her Mother All about It
• Date: 1858
• Creator attribution: Henry Peach Robinson (British, 1830–1901)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 29.9 x 19.5 cm (11 3/4 x 7 11/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1988.215

Collection credit

John L. Severance 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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