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Watch Chain

2 pp

H x W: 26 × 13.5 cm (10 1/4 × 5 5/16 in.)

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Water Carriers on the Magdalena, Barranquilla, Colombia

2 pp

Landscape and figure sketch showing a view of nine water carriers and their donkeys wading in waters at the mouth of the Magdalena River. The figures occupy the foreground, while a canoe with four passengers travels along the river beyond them at left. Visible in the middle distance, a wooded bank contains fenced coconut grove, a house, and two figures at right. Scattered, wispy clouds occupy the

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Water Falling on Rocks

2 pp

Landscape sketch showing a view of water falling on rocks--either a product of waves breaking against a rugged seashore or mist falling on the boulders at the base of Niagara Falls. In the foreground at center, a pile of rocks has a billowing, misty plume of vaporous water crashing into or falling upon them, which then organizes into small rivulets between the rocks. Space behind the mist is light

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Water Plants, Rome, Italy

3 pp

Botanical sketches showing views of water plants in Rome. At center, at center, a flowering plant is situated within several reeds or leaves. Details of its blossom and buds are visible at upper right. A water plant that resembles the branch of a pine tree with numerous needles is included at far right (possibly Hydrotriche Hottoniiflora).

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Water Wheel near Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

2 pp

12.3 × 20.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

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Water color; A Neapolitan watermelon shop

1 pp

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.

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Water color; A fruit stall in Naples at Christmas

1 pp

Horizontal rectangle. The fruit boxes are displayed at left outside of a house at a square. A scaffold is erected on poles which are covered with leaves. Two men serve the customers. A woman sits upon a chair in the left corner; a boy stands beside her. A girl and a boy with a dog leave the shop at right. Framing lines. Signature: "Gatta 1828."

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Water color; A midwife with a baby on the way to church for christening

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Horizontal rectangle. Two men carry a sedan chair, labeled "NAP[IOO {or} ION]" with two persons. A woman and three children accompany it in the middle distance. In the foreground at left sits a woman with a child. In the middle distance at left is shown the corner of a palatial house. Framing lines. Signature in the lower right corner: "Gatta."

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Water color; A vegetable stall

1 pp

Horizontal rectangle. The vegetables are displayed upon a scaffold at the corner of a house, and in baskets. Others are loaded by a man and a boy upon an ass. A woman bargains with the vendor with another woman standing by. A vegetable dealer with an ass is shown from the back in the middle distance. In the background at left are houses and a door leading into the inner town of Naples. Signed in p

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Water color; A woman selling roasted corn

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Horizontal rectangle. A woman with a baby and two bigger children sits upon the pavement in the southeast corner of the Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples. A dish with corn is in front of her. A child eats one, a woman takes one. A carriage, a soldier, a walking man are shown on the place. Castel S. Elmo and S. Martino are shown in the background. Framing lines. Signature: "Gatta" in pen and ink at l

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Water color; Night Fishing at the Entrance to a Cave

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Horizontal rectangle. Three fishermen in boat and another seated upon a stone are shown fishing in a huge cave lighted by a fire at the stern of the boat. A fifth man stands at left. Framing lines.

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Water color; On the shore in Chiaja

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Horizontal rectangle. Three men move a boat lying on the shore, at left. At right are a standing and spinning woman, a seated woman nursing a baby with a girl standing beside her, three men and an eating child. At left is a rock, at right is a promontory with structure, in the background are Capri and the peninsula of Sorrento. Framing line. The signature is in the lower right corner: "Gatta f. 18

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Water Carriers on the Magdalena, Barranquilla, Colombia

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Water color; A Neapolitan watermelon shop

Water color; A fruit stall in Naples at Christmas

Water color; A midwife with a baby on the way to church for christening

Water color; A vegetable stall

Water color; A woman selling roasted corn

Water color; Night Fishing at the Entrance to a Cave

Water color; On the shore in Chiaja