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Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Accession no: P.2086-R
State: 5/5

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK  
Provenance:Given by Mrs T. H. Riches to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, September 1923.  

 

Paper size:262 x 170 mm  
Plate mark size:153 x 89 mm  
Note on size:very irregular at bottom and left  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:off-white  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:handmade  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:very little  
Note on foul biting:  
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: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:'Quartier Mouffetard / The Rag Gatherers M23, K.23. W.17 5th state.' and ;18/2/62/ [?] recto.  

 

Source of information:Museum records  
ID:K0230511  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.