3-078-150 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Flower and Vegetable Market, Boulogne, by H. Caffieri, 1890. 'Some time ago we had an Illustration of the pleasing trade in flowers which is one of the attractive features of San Remo; and though the French shore that lies so near to ours, across the homely Channel, is not so favoured in climate and soil as the beautiful Riviera, visitors to Boulogne may find something of the same agreeable kind to beguile their daily stroll in the streets of that lively and hospitable town. The market for culinary vegetables, on one side, and for choice flowering plants and bouquets of blossoms, on the other, held near the lower end of the Grande Rue, is attractive by the nature of such produce, and by the amiable manners of the French women engaged in this profitable business. Mr. H. Caffieri's drawing of this scene will be acceptable to our readers, many of whom are likely to recognise its truth from their personal observation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.