Bertha Lum’s Washerwomen in the Western Hills

A Bertha Lum (1869-1954) print acquired (by the mother of a ChinaRhyming reader – many thanks) interwar at Helen Burton’s famous shop, The Camel’s Bell, in the lobby of the Grand Hotel de Pekin (on Chang’an Dajie – now the Nuo Hotel sandwiched in between a couple of the ghastly additions to the Beijing Hotel). Ot was titled “Washerwomen in the Western Hills” – apparently the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum also has one (though coloured differently)…