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Description: | Turnips were fed to sheep as winter fodder. This woman and girl are working at dawn or dusk, about to operate the awkward-looking turnip cutting machine. The harshness of the subject matter is softened by the stippled finish and the glowing colours of the picture. This is one of many pictures painted by Arthur Hardwick Marsh illustrating the lives of poor rural workers. Marsh began visiting Cullercoats on the North Tyneside coast in 1869, and settled permanently in the area in 1884. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work art movement artists living in the North East animals watercolours art North East artists children people natural world women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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