Newhaven

Category

Library Item

Item no

4760

Title

Newhaven

Description

A light watercolour sketch of a street in Newhaven, Edinburgh. The narrow lane has houses on either side with external stairs. A man in a cap with his hands in his pockets looks towards a woman with a bucket at her feet. A stool and a basket can also be seen in the street.

Artist / maker

Rose, David T.

Date

1942

Size

27.8 x 18.8 cm

Type

Watercolour

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

David Thomas Rose was born in the Scottish Borders and brought up in Nairn.
His first job took him to Glasgow in 1896 where he studied in night classes in Glasgow Academy of Art.
Family summer holidays were mostly taken in Scotland. His sister became a eminent obstetrician, working in Edinburgh and the Roses would often stay with her in Joppa or with other family in Fife. While there in 1933 Rose sketched prolifically, especially in the Dean Village and Leith Docks.

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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Architecture > Architectural features > Stairways

People > Adults > Men

People > Adults > Women

Places > Edinburgh areas > Newhaven

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Streets