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Alfred Robert HaywardThe Sand Pit, 1905 Oil Painting, English Pastoral Landscape1905
1905
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Oil on board, signed lower left
Inscribed and dated 1905 on reverse
Image size: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (21 x 27 cm)
Contemporary style hand made frame
This is a scene of the outskirts of the village of East Ruston, found near the coast in Norfolk. The setting is a sand and gravel pit with the houses of the village just identifiable through the trees in the background.
This small sand pit was most likely used for local supply. The workers would have provided this by the cart load, moving the sand by horse and cart along the road through to town, to be sold for local use by building firms and in tile-making. Into the 20th century, the alternative form of transport of railway would become the main means of moving the sand throughout the country.
Here we can see the two figures in the foreground shovelling sand onto the back of the cart. In these days the back-breaking task of digging sand was carried out entirely by hand by poorly paid workmen known as dobbers. Horses were used in this heavy work and young boys were often employed to tend to the horses.
Manual methods of sand excavation continued even after mechanical methods were available because it was an easy way for sand to be dug. During the 1930s the first mechanical diggers and excavators appeared.
- Creator:Alfred Robert Hayward (1875 - 1971, British)
- Creation Year:1905
- Dimensions:Height: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)Width: 10.5 in (26.67 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:1 of 1Price: $2,293
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU52411073182
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