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Henry Peach Robinson

1830

WA-00029147

PhotographyPhotography

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WikidataQ574144 ULAN500000062

MoMA

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Photography as Printmaking

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968

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Photography 1839�1937

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1937

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2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

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Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4963
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Artsy (bulk)https://www.artsy.net/artist/henry-peach-robinson
Tier 1 · Institutional85%

About

Why this artist matters now

Henry Peach Robinson was a British photographer and theorist who pioneered composite photography in the 1850s and 1860s, assembling multiple negatives into single prints to create narrative scenes impossible to capture in a single exposure. His meticulously staged compositions drew on painterly tradition and literary subjects, establishing photography as a medium capable of fine art ambition. Robinson's technical innovations and written treatises on photographic aesthetics shaped the emergence of pictorialism and elevated the medium's critical standing in the nineteenth century.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (16)

Carolling

1887 · Photogravure, "Sun Artists, Number 2" (1890)

Image: 11.6 × 18.2 cm (4 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Paper: 28.2 × 37.8 cm (11 1/8 × 14 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dawn and Sunset

1885 · Photogravure, from "Sun Artists, Number 2" (1890)

Image: 13.1 × 18.3 cm (5 3/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Paper: 28.2 × 38.1 cm (11 1/8 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

On the Slopes of Cader-Idris, The Last Load of Hay

1883 · Albumen print

Image/oval: 11.7 × 17.6 cm (4 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.); First mount: 27.7 × 37.7 cm (10 15/16 × 14 7/8 in.); Second mount: 28.2 × 38.2 cm (11 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

I think on the Laddie that lo'es me so well

1882 · Albumen print

Image/paper: 28.2 × 37 cm (11 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Mount: 36.6 × 51.8 cm (14 7/16 × 20 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Merry Tale

1882 · Photogravure, from "Sun Artists, Number 2" (1890)

Image: 12.4 × 18.1 cm (4 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Paper: 27.9 × 38.2 cm (11 × 15 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Talk with the Keeper

1881 · Albumen print

Image/paper: 26.9 × 37.4 cm (10 5/8 × 14 3/4 in.); Mount: 36.4 × 51.8 cm (14 3/8 × 20 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Rook Shooting

1881 · Albumen print

Image/paper: 27.6 × 37.2 cm (10 7/8 × 14 11/16 in.); Mount: 36.4 × 51.8 cm (14 3/8 × 20 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gossip on the Beach

1880 · platinum print

overall: 35 x 62.8 cm (13 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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Untitled

1880 · Albumen silver print from a glass negative

10 1/4 × 15 1/8" (26.1 × 38.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

When the Day's Work is Done

1877 · Photogravure, from "Sun Artists, Number 2" (1890)

Image: 12.6 × 18 cm (5 × 7 1/8 in.); Paper: 28.1 × 37.7 cm (11 1/8 × 14 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Scène d’Octobre: La jeune poitrinaire (An October Scene: The Young Consumptive), from "Le Journal Illustré" no. 34

1864 · Wood engraving

Image: 9 1/16 in. × 13 in. (23 × 33 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

She Runs Home and Tells Her Mother All about It

1858 · albumen print from wet collodion negative

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.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Fading Away, from "Illustrated Times"

1858 · Wood engraving

Sheet: 9 7/16 × 13 3/8 in. (24 × 33.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Fear

1858 · Albumen silver print

Image: 7 15/16 × 6 1/16 in. (20.2 × 15.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

She Never Told Her Love

1857 · albumen print

image: 17.8 x 21.8 cm (7 x 8 9/16 in.) mount: 29 x 36.9 cm (11 7/16 x 14 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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"She Never Told Her Love"

1857 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

18 x 23.2cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/8in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork sources (5)

16 published of 17 catalogued · 11 with image

Art Institute Chicago
8 published8 img
The Met
4 published
Nga
2 published2 img
MoMA
1 publishedof 2 catalogued
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published1 img

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1 entries · 1 sources

She Runs Home and Tells Her Mother All about It
1858 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Cleveland Museum of Art

She Runs Home and Tells Her Mother All about It (1858)

Cleveland Museum of Art

On the Slopes of Cader-Idris, The Last Load of Hay (1883)

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

A Merry Tale (1882, printed January 1890)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dawn and Sunset (1885, printed January 1890)

Art Institute of Chicago

When the Day's Work is Done (1877, printed January 1890)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Art Institute of Chicago

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National Gallery of Art

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Photography as Printmaking

New York · 1968

Group Exhibition Photography 1839�1937

New York · 1937