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West Close, Newhaven
Heron, James, 1876, Watercolour
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West Close, Newhaven
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5424
Title
West Close, Newhaven
Description
A fisherman stands near a woman holding on to a large basket in West Close, Edinburgh. Another woman sits on the pavement at the bottom of a stairway, a child is on the stairs. Barrels and baskets are beside the houses in the close and washing is dying on a line suspended between two buildings.
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Heron, James
Date
1876
Size
11.9 x 16.2 cm
Type
Watercolour
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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