Pictorialism got a bad rap. I'm not sure where the muddy messes we associate with it came from, to be honest.
Ansel Adams started out as a pictorialist, but what people don't realize is that despite rejecting it relatively early, he remained a pictorialist his entire career. Robinson was all about sharp, detailed, and picturesque.
I'm not a fan of this particular picture, it strikes me as excessively random. There's some pleasure in the texture and arrangement of objects, and there are some appealing things about the frame, but it doesn't pull together for me. In Robinson's vernacular (which I assume he borrowed from contemporary painting or something) this picture has Variety, a modest degree of Balance, and not enough Unity. There's also some Breadth, but very little Repose.