Painting entitled 'Oyster Dredgers at Porlock Weir'
- Description
- These three boats are dredging for oysters near the shore at Porlock Weir. Look closely at the nearest sloop and you can see the drag nets used to gather oysters. Oyster fishing was an important local industry from the early 1700s to the early 1900s. Acquired with assistance from the Art Fund, the ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund (www.vam.ac.uk/purchasegrantfund) and the Friends of the Museum of Somerset.
- Accession Loan No.
- TTNCM : 11/2015
- Collection Class
- Fine Art
- Medium
- oil
- Common Name
- painting entitled 'Oyster Dredgers at Porlock Weir'
- Simple Name
- painting
- Production Person Surname
- Hemy (1841-1917)
- Production Person Initials
- Charles Napier
- Period Classification
- Modern (AD 1800-Present)
- Production Date
- 1890
- Production County
- Somerset
- Production Country
- England
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Material
- canvas
- Topography Town
- Porlock, Somerset
- Topography Building Keyword
- Porlock Weir
- Inscription / Transcription
- C. Napier Hemy 1890
