Street scene with a woman struggling to hold a chicken at a market. A middle-aged woman, wearing a beret, spectacles and a long coat, bends down to grasp a large hen. In front of her on the pavement is a lidded basket for the bird. In the background is a cobbled road with, on the left, a figure moving a heavy bag and the coat and feet of a woman, and, on the right, the wheels of two bicycles and feet of two pedestrians. Dust-ground aquatint with no evidence of any etched lines. Stopping out for highlights. Some foxing