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Studio portrait of Newhaven fishwife
Begbie, Thomas, 1887, Glass negative
Studio portrait of Newhaven fishwife
Studio portrait of Newhaven fishwife
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11682
Title
Studio portrait of Newhaven fishwife, standing beside wicker creels
Description
A double image of a Newhaven fishwife taken in a photographic studio. The woman is standing leaning on a creel. Her hair is swept back in a centre parting and she is wearing a striped skirt and apron, a printed cotton blouse and a dark heavy cloak. She is standing against a painted background with an image of fishing houses by the sea on it.
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
This is a glass negative from the Thomas Begbie Cavaye Collection which is held by City of Edinburgh Museums and 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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