[Mrs Weltje in her shop in Pall Mall]

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[Mrs Weltje in her shop in Pall Mall]
etching, watercolor :
Plate mark: 7 7/16 x 10 7/8 inches (199 x 28 mm.); Design: 7 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches (189 x 277 mm.)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1542
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Inscription: 

Lower right corner, in pencil: BM 6317 286 Lower center, in black ink: M. Wildier Lower center, in pencil: 'Wildier' is crossed out and Weltje is next to it Right side of lower edge, in pencil: (?).

Notes: 

Title from British Museum catalog.
Watermark: Unknown.
Page 5 and page 5a-Page 5 is not numbered correctly, possibly misplaced

Summary: 

Print shows the interior of a shop with a window (left) and a semicircular counter or bar behind which sits a buxom lady (right) in a chair, her head in profile to the left. On the narrow counter are pears, apples, and three dishes of fruit. Displayed in the window are pine-apples, pottles of fruit, glasses, &c, and a plant in a pot. Bunches of grapes hang in front of the window-panes; rows of glasses, glass bottles, and jars stand on narrow ledges across the divisions between the panes of glass. On three shelves (right) above Mrs. Weltje's head are ranged jelly glasses, &c. Cf. BM catalog.

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