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.". Date: 1828. Pen and black ink and yellow, red, blue, green, brown, gray water colors on wove paper. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.