2-982-045 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Street Scene in Lisbon: from a picture by the Viscount de Menezes in the Collection of King Ferdinand, at Lisbon, 1876. Engraving of '...a picture by the Viscount de Menezes, a Portuguese amateur artist, in the collection of his Majesty Dom Fernando (father of the present King of Portugal) at Lisbon. The female chestnut venders of Lisbon occupy a prominent position at the doors of wine shops, and at the gates of gardens, where spirits and other refreshments are sold to the humbler classes. They are always famous as gossips; but many are handsome girls and attractive to customers. A remarkable specimen of this class of women sits at the corner shown in the "Street Scene in Lisbon".' From "Illustrated London News", 1876.