# Fishwives on the Beach at Scheveningen

- By: Bernardus Johannes Blommers (The Hague, 1845–1914)
- Date: c. 1880 - c. 1885
- Medium: paper, deck paint, pencil, watercolor (paint), chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 370 mm x width 550 mm
- Credit line: Jonkheer P.A. van den Velden Bequest, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1892-A-2545--bc0b146f26dc80b42b2bc42f791312b4)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2a22045ccf510efa395e948bb985de8b.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The small, square-rigged bomschuits brought their catch onto the beach at Scheveningen to be sorted and auctioned. Fishwives filled their large baskets with fresh fish for sale in the town. This watercolour is not from the Drucker-Fraser collection, but from a legacy left by Jhr. P.A. van den Velden in 1892. He laid the ground for the Rijksmuseum’s collection of 19th-century drawings and watercolours.