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Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

British Museum
Accession no: 1872.07.13.380
State: 5/5

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © Trustees of the British Museum  
Provenance:Bought from 'Mr Thomas' - probably Edmund Thomas (1842-1883) - by the British Museum, London, 13 July 1872.  
Additional acq. no:PRN: PPA49326  

 

Paper size:184 x 120 mm  
Plate mark size:151 x 90 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove (sight)  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no (sight)  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:Very light overall tone. A tiny bare bit at bottom edge to left of centre.  
Note on foul biting:Some scrim type marks at bottom edge, some tip right corner, a few more [dots] bottom left corner.  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler' ('s' reversed)  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'1858'  
Inscriptions by others on the plate:no  
Whistler's signature on paper:'Whistler'  
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:n/a  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project and museum records  
ID:K0230510  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.