The shore at Newhaven

Category

Museums & Galleries Item

Item no

11568

Title

The shore at Newhaven

Description

Two figures are on the stony beach at Newhaven, Edinburgh. One man stands looking out to sea whilst another crouches down with a fishing rod and bag. Seaweed makes patterns on the beach. Behind them a paved slope and set of steps leads up to houses. Granton Harbour can be seen in the distance.

Artist / maker

Begbie, Thomas

Date

1887

Size

8.3 x 17.1 cm

Type

Glass negative

Location

City Art Centre

Copyright

The Cavaye Collection of Thomas Begbie Prints ; The City of Edinburgh Council Museums & Galleries

Newhaven was founded by James IV in 1504 as a royal dockyard. It became an important fishing village, famous initially for oysters and later herring. An indoor fish market was built there in 1896. Newhaven fishwives, with their distinctive striped clothes, sold their goods around Edinburgh. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson famously photographed these fishwives and other Newhaven residents in the 1840's. The area now has a population of roughly five thousand.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Landscape > Land > Coastlines

People > Agriculture and fisheries > Fishermen

Places > Edinburgh areas > Newhaven

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

(55°58′50″N, 3°12′39″W)

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