NO. 2 FIRESIDE BELLOWS

Descriptions of Alfred Wallis's cottage by his step-grandchildren tell of an open fireplace with a brass fender in front, and a brass poker and shovel at either end. A “large brass blower” and wooden bellows hung next to a copper bed pan that was filled with hot stones to heat the bed each night.

Wallis chose to paint his wooden bellows with a two-masted topsail schooner approaching a harbour. The bellows were still in his cottage after he died in the workhouse. They were kept by the new owner of the cottage until later sold to a private collector.