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La Marchande de Moutarde

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 17.3.17
State: 5/5

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:Bought from the collection of Harris Brisbane Dick (1835-1916), with the Dick Fund, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917.  

 

Paper size:228 x 160 mm  
Plate mark size:157 x 89 mm  
Note on size:uneven edge at bottom  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Very light tone, wiped clean on bonnet and head  
Note on foul biting:at right and bottom, with light texturing over the foreground.  
Print note:A very good impression.  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler'  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:no  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:no  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:no  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:no  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'yx.' and '1/ <' on verso.  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0220506  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.