On the Easel – Sat 26th November 2011
November 26, 2011 at 2:34 pm , by admin
“Herring Lassies mending nets” – Work in Progress, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 30 inches. This is the end of the 1st blocking in, muted tones.
Scottish Highland and Island women were used to hard work and they cheerfully gave a good account of themselves when they were at the fishing. For that reason they were popular with their employers and the other workers involved in the herring trade.
Thousands of herring girl gutters travelled every season, summer and winter, particularly from the 1840s onwards to most if not all the main Scottish and English herring fishing ports, such as Lerwick, Stronsay in the northern Isles, Wick, Fraserburgh, Peterhead, etc. as well as the Irish, Isle of Man and English fishing ports. In autumn there was the English East Anglia herring fishing based mainly on Yarmouth and Lowestoft.
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