Newhaven fisherboy

Category

Library Item

Item no

4152

Title

Newhaven fisherboy

Description

A fisherboy from Newhaven, Edinburgh stands leaning on a basket filled with thin sticks. The basket is balancing on a wooden stool. He is wearing a tammy hat, rolled up trousers with braces and is bare footed. There is a wooden chair and a boat behind him.

Artist / maker

Hill, David Octavius

Date

1845

Size

19.7 x 14.1 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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Agriculture and fisheries > Equipment > Creels

Furnishings > Furniture > Chairs

People > Agriculture and fisheries > Fishermen

People > Children > Boys

People > Children > Child labourers

Places > Edinburgh areas > Newhaven

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Water > Boats

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