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The image depicts a woman posing confidently, with her left hand on her hip and her right hand against a stone wall. Her face is partially shadowed, but her hair is neatly pulled back. She wears a knee-length striped skirt and a light-colored blouse with voluminous sleeves. A large woven basket is beside her. The background is a textured stone wall.
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The image depicts a woman posing confidently, with her left hand on her hip and her right hand against a stone wall. Her face is partially shadowed, but her hair is neatly pulled back. She wears a knee-length striped skirt and a light-colored blouse with voluminous sleeves. A large woven basket is beside her. The background is a textured stone wall.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

A Newhaven Fisherwoman

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

Date
1844
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 19.5 × 14.4 cm (7 11/16 × 5 11/16 in.) mount: 37.8 × 30.1 cm (14 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2003.37.1
Credit line
Millennium Funds
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • genre
  • salted paper print
  • female
  • portrait
  • Scottish
Provenance

Paul Walter; (Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, England); NGA purchase, 2003.

Inscription

all on mount: lower left under image: D.O. Hill RSA & R. Adamson; lower right under image: Edinburgh 1844; lower left: No. 16; lower right: A Newhaven Fisherwoman

NGA object ID 121539. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.