EditorialFancy dress costume of a fishwife, 18th century. Silk lowcut caraco bodice, muslin fichu, flowery skirt, muslin apron, striped petticoat, lace bonnet. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from "L'Art du Travestissement" (The Art of Fanc...
EditorialWoman Looking Out to Sea, Cullercoats, England, Winslow Homer, American, 18361910, Charcoal on white wove paper, View of the back of a standing female figure, dressed in the clothes of a fishwife, looking out to sea; parts of two boats are seen in the ...
EditorialNewhaven Fishwife, 1843?47, Salted paper print from paper negative, Photographs, David Octavius Hill (British, Perth, Scotland 1802?1870 Edinburgh, Scotland), Robert Adamson (British, St. Andrews, Scotland 1821?1848 St. Andrews, Scotland).
EditorialCostume of a Scottish fishwife, 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph from Thomas Hailes Lacy's "Female Costumes Historical, National and Dramatic in 200 Plates," London, 1865. Lacy (1809-1873) was a British actor, playwright, theatrical manager and pu...
EditorialFancy dress costume of a fishwife, 18th century. Silk lowcut caraco bodice, muslin fichu, flowery skirt, muslin apron, striped petticoat, lace bonnet. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from "L'Art du Travestissement" (The Art of Fanc...
EditorialTHE FISHWIFE OF MARKEN. R. JORDANS. Marken is a peninsula in the IJsselmeer, in the Netherlands and a former island in the Zuiderzee. For some time during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerabl...