Water color; A Neapolitan watermelon shop
date: label: Date
content: 1828
name: label: Designer
content: Saverio della Gatta, Italian, 1777 - 1829
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. The business goes on in front of the storeroom, which is in the basement at the corner of a house. A man is busy cutting a melon, another raises two halves and shouts. A boy carries two trays with pieces of melons. Children eat or await their shares. A boy tries the ripeness of a melon, a child searches among the peels. A boy is shown eating in the left corner. Framing line. The signature is in the lower right corner: "Gatta f. 1828."
place: label: made in
content: Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-73-1
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink and yellow, red, blue, green, brown, gray water colors on wove paper.
label: Dimensions
content: 19.6 × 26 cm (7 11/16 × 10 1/4 in.)