Original nineteenth-century painting of shopkeepers at work

by Ephemera

$600 · Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers

No place: no publisher, nineteenth century. Gouache painting, measuring 3.75 x 6.25 inches, mounted to a grey backing sheet, in an old mahogany frame measuring 6.75 x 9.5 inches. Later pencil inscription to verso of painting: “Handelskontor 1820.” Backed in the frame by a cabinet card of a young boy taken in Hartford, Connecticut, at the turn of the twentieth century. Pencil note “painting / dated 1820”on

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