This photograph, taken in 1893, is also known as Evening Work.

In Naef: (The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz),  Alfred Stieglitz, writing as editor for The American Amateur Photographer, comments on this photograph: “We have seen but few pictures to equal that called “Labor-Evening” (called erroneously “Toil” in the last number of American Amateur Photographer). The picture breathes of atmosphere, it is a piece of nature itself.  We can give it no higher praise”.  (AAP: May, 1894, p. 213 ) (Biblio. 882)

Copper plate by James Craig Annan (pretée par l’auteur)