"Newhaven Fishwife", Edinburgh, circa 1883

carte de visite

PHOTOGRAPHS
Burns, Archibald
Great Britain, Scotland, Edinburgh
circa 1883
paper
overall: 4 x 2-1/2 in.

Carte de visite, albumen print mounted on white card; "Newhaven Fishwife", Edinburgh, circa 1883; collected by Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899) during his travels as a shipmaster to the British Isles; staged depiction of a fishwife (a woman who sells fish) from Newhaven (a district of Edinburgh; this was a popular subject for many painters and artists in the area at this time); printed on back "ARCHIBALD BURNS,/ Photographer,/ EDINBURGH."

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