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Description: | Frank Brangwyn's print shows Billingsgate fish porters as heroic figures, transporting boxes of fish from the riverside wharfs to Billingsgate market. In 1920, the market was in the City of London by the river.
Brangwyn was not the only artist to portray the fish porters at around this time. The physicality of their work and their distinctive look, with their tough, flat-topped leather bobbin hats, turned them into London icons. They represented the City as a place of no-nonsense hard work.
Belgium born Brangwyn was based in London. However he worked extensively in Europe, where his reputation was high.
Brangwyn had studied with William Morris and subscribed to William Morris's Arts & Crafts ideas, including sympathy for the ordinary worker. He was a largely self-taught artist who once stated, 'the fields and the streets were my school of art'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Copyright David Brangwyn | Subjects: | work Art and Design | Temporal: | 1920 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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