[56908] : Fleetwood Museum : Mussel Gatherers

Fleetwood Museum, Queen's Terrace, Fleetwood, Lancashire.

Mussel Gatherers, Sunderland Point, Lancashire, 1908.

By William Page Atkinson Wells (1872-1923).

Oil on canvas.

 

This painting depicts a cobbled and sandy shore, strewn with seaweed, on which women are collecting mussels from the waters of the receding tide (a traditional local occupation). Centrally placed on the promontory is a historically important group of buildings, including former warehouses that stored the first consignments of imported cotton from the West Indies. The work is though to be one of the finest known by the artist.

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