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29

Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Accession no: 012.2007
State: 4/5

Collection credit:The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art  
Image credit:Photo © Colby College Museum of Art  
Provenance:Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London. Paul McCarron, New York. Fine Art Society and Gordon Cooke (cat. 1994); Artemis, London; Dr George S. van Houten, Netherlands; his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 2007 ( lot 6); Peter and Paula Lunder; given by Peter and Paula Lunder to Colby College, 2007.  

 

Paper size:204 x 136 mm  
Plate mark size:154 x 90 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:thick, card-like  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:overall tone, wiping marks along right edge.  
Note on foul biting:  
Print note:nice, contrast, burr accents and retroussage.  

 

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 4041'  
Misc inscriptions by others:Haden, [per dealer inscription on mount]: '1st trial from plate [à?] burr'; '28' on recto. on verso: 'IR', '[… RP]', 'Before the two figures … boy and girl / Before the date, 1858'; 'S [circled] O'  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0230408  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.