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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Newhaven Fishwives, Jeanie Wilson and Annie Linton

Newhaven Fishwives, Jeanie Wilson and Annie Linton

1845
(British, 1802–1870)
(British, 1821–1848)
Image: 29.5 x 14.4 cm (11 5/8 x 5 11/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Hill and Adamson’s four-year collaboration yielded around 3,000 photographs, including portraits of members of the middle and upper classes and, in what may be the first social documentary project, of the working class. Included in their survey of contemporary life were numerous portraits of the fishermen’s wives in the villages around Edinburgh. The women, garbed in distinctive striped skirts and aprons, cleaned their husbands’ catch, then carried it in wicker baskets to the city where they offered it for sale. They were reported to be hard bargainers. Hill and Adamson respectfully recorded not only their likenesses but also their names.
  • David Octavius Hill
    Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    David Octavius Hill; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
  • Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1987." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (1988): 30-71. p. 67, no. 63 25160017
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 195
  • Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017).
    Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Nov. 21, 1991-Jan. 18, 1992: "Hill and Adamson's The Fishermen and Women of Firth of Forth." Exhibition catalogue Plate 36.
    The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
    Michaelson, Katherine. A Centenary Exhibition of the Work of David Octavius Hill, 1802-1870, and Robert Adamson, 1821-1848 (Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council, 1970). Exhibition catalogue no. 252, p. 73.
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