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Hastings: Fish Market on the Sands, Early Morning

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1824

This is the largest of ten watercolour views of Hastings by Turner. It was probably intended as an engraving for W B Cooke's Marine Views but reproduction was never carried out. It shows an early morning fish sale on Hastings beach with the East Parade, Battery and Castle in the distance. In the centre is a group of fashionable women, a boy with a hoop, fishermen in their 'tanfrocks', fishwives with baskets of fish and two figures in Greek costume, one with his arm in a sling. The latter are a reference to the Greek War of Independence which had widespread support in Britain at the time.

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Title of artwork, date

Hastings: Fish Market on the Sands, Early Morning, 1824

Date supported

2006

Medium and material

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

44.5 x 66 cm

Grant

31806

Total cost

261744

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