Sketching Tulips and Seeds

A seed house devoted to flowers and shown in six rooms. Upstairs left, a woman paints a tulip at a tilted drawing board while another carries a paint palette, under a botanical lettering chart. In the middle, a man in a flat cap reads a card beside grey cabinets and a vault door, under a seed classification poster. At the right, a gentleman in a suit reads a paper in a wallpapered office with portraits and a map of the Netherlands. Downstairs left, two women sort grain through sieves at a long table, with coloured bowls of poppy, beet and flower seeds. In the middle, a worker tends trays of sprouts beside a long water trough, in front of germination charts. At the right, a shopkeeper serves a customer as a delivery boy brings a parcel. Bowls of poppy, beet and flower seeds dot the long table with colour, small bright clues in a calm house.