About This Image

On a printed mount (6-1/4 x 9-1/2 in.) with studio name (Henry Peach Robinson & Nelson King Cherrill), location and title printed on mount. Good period prints of Henry Peach Robinson's genre work are quite scarce. Crease to bottom left corner of the mount not affecting photograph.

Henry Peach Robinson: English photographer: 1830-1901 and Nelson King Cherrill: English photographer, (also worked in New Zealand): 1845-1916.

Henry Peach Robinson opened his first studio in London, and worked in Leamington Spa, before relocating to Tunbridge Wells in Kent. He hired Nelson King Cherrill as an assistant in 1868, and such was his talent that the duo soon entered a business partnership. Until it was dissolved in 1875, (after which Cherrill continued as a successful photographer in New Zealand), the partnership flourished, specializing in artistic photography and studio portraits, and receiving numerous medals for their European and American exhibits.

This photograph was probably first exhibited at the Photographic Society of Great Britain, Pall Mall East, London, in 1873. Other examples located include a large hand-colored version at the J. Paul Getty Museum and one at Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery.

A wood-engraved reproduction of the photograph appeared in the Illustrated London News, November 8, 1873.

See: Margaret F. Harker, Henry Peach Robinson: Master of Photographic Art, 1830-1901, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), p.58.

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