WALTER BROOKES SPONG (English, 1851-1929). ABBEVILLE, signed lower right and located 'Abbeville' lower left, c. 1890. Watercolor
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Bright, attractive, multi-colored townscape/genre scene of Abbeville, France, with peddlers engaged in selling, inspecting and negotiating sales of vegetables, game, and other household viands and goods. Composition includes various women, one with a child and dog in a market square, surrounded by houses and buildings under a light-blue summer sky with billowing cumulus clouds.
