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Newhaven fishermen
Hill, David Octavius, 1845, Salted paper print
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Title
Newhaven fishermen
Description
Three fishermen from Newhaven, Edinburgh lean on a boat and pose for the camera. They are wearing traditional fishermen's outfits of light coloured canvas trousers, dark jackets and white scarfs. They are wearing an assortment of hats including a stove pipe hat.
Artist / maker
Hill, David Octavius
Date
1845
Size
19.9 x 14.5 cm
Type
Salted paper print
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
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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