Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012959She Runs Home and Tells Her Mother All about It
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on recto: "From Mr. H P Robinson photo Seamorpton [?]"; "4/L"; in black ink on verso "231"; in pencil on verso: "4"
Provenance
(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd.), Sussex, United Kingdom June 29, 1989: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Henry Peach Robinson (British, 1830–1901)
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- 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.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1988.215
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