The Shrimp Girl

The Shrimp Girl

Infobox Painting



title=The Shrimp Girl
artist=William Hogarth
year=circa 17401745
type=Oil painting
height=63.5
width=52.5
city=London
museum=National Gallery

"The Shrimp Girl" is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764). It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London.

The painting is a relatively late work by Hogarth, when he experimented with an increasingly loose, almost impressionistic, style comparable in style to the work of Frans Hals. It is based on the prints of hawkers and traders popular in Hogarth's day. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/portrait/story/0,,740344,00.html] The painting depicts a woman selling shellfish on the streets of London, typically a job for the wives and daughters of fishmongers who owned stalls in markets such as Billingsgate. The subject balances a large basket on her head, bearing shrimps and mussels, together with a half-pint pewter pot as a measure. Its size suggests that it was intended as a portrait, rather than a sketch for a larger work.

It is not strictly finished and was still in Hogarth's estate after his death. His widow Jane was said to have told visitors on showing the picture to them: "They say he could not paint flesh. There is flesh and blood for you." It was only sold after his wife's death in 1789, and first received its title "The Shrimp Girl" in a Christie's sale catalogue.

The painting (retitled "The Saleswoman of Crabs") was used on a postage stamp by the Yemen Arab Republic in 1969. [http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-Hogarth.htm]

References

* [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng1162 National Gallery information]
*Mark Hallett and Christine Riding (2006). "Hogarth". Tate Publishing, p.126-7. ISBN 10 1-85437-662-4.


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