Shrimping Collection (#2)

Boy, Girl, Model Boat
Brother and sister watch their model boat as it sails proudly away across a pool

Shrimp Fleet Docks, Tampa, Florida, 1940s. [Tichnor Quality Views, Boston]

Women shrimp fishers, Calais, 1905. Postcard: Everything here smells of fish instead of [?] mimosa and heliotrope, Much love, CM

Crustacea and Reptiles, c1850. Artist: Robert Kent Thomas
Crustacea and Reptiles, c1850. The central image shows a lobster, crab, turtle, scallops, whelks and prawns, cowrie shells, lobster and crab pots and shrimping nets

Young girl shrimping. Young girl with net catching shellfish on the shore Date: circa 1890

Source Size = 3896 x 2978
Shrimping in the Medway, 1870

The Collection at Goemon (oil on canvas)
XIR386436 The Collection at Goemon (oil on canvas) by Mauve, Anton (1838-88); 51x71 cm; Musee d Orsay, Paris, France; (add.info.: Le Ramassage du Goemon; ); Dutch, out of copyright

Cornish Shrimpers (oil on canvas)
XPG366387 Cornish Shrimpers (oil on canvas) by Breanski, Gustave de (c.1856-98); Private Collection; English, out of copyright

Low Tide at Etaples, 1886
XJL60984 Low Tide at Etaples, 1886 by Boudin, Eugene Louis (1824-98); Musee des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France; French, out of copyright

Shrimping (oil on canvas) 88; this painting has an indecipherable date
BAL14446 Shrimping (oil on canvas) 88; this painting has an indecipherable date; by Stanfield, Clarkson R.A. (1793-1867); Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; English, out of copyright

Shrimp boats at sunrise, Seadrift, Tx

Mont St Michel, France
Two Fisherman fishing for shrimp at the low tide before the dramatic outline of Mont St Michel, Normandy, France

Le Touquet - Shrimp fisherwomen
Shrimp fishing at Le Touquet, France. Five teenage girls carrying rolled-up fishing nets, designed to catch shrimp

On the Beach 1899
A lady in a blue gingham dress sits in a high-backed wicker beach chair while her companion in red striped gown carries a shrimping net

SHRIMPING, 1867
SHRIMP - A Victorian fisherman shrimping below cliffs

Shrimping / Ostend / C. 1885
Children shrimping at Ostend

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