29Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, ParisBoston Museum of Fine ArtsAccession no: M23400 State: 5/5 |
| Collection credit: | |
| Image credit: | |
| Provenance: | Frederick Keppel (1845-1912), New York; bequeathed to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1912 ( 'Frederick Keppel Memorial' collection, October 1913). |
| Paper size: | 212 x 140 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 152 x 89 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | off white (blue tinge) |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid 'modern' |
| Note on the paper: | |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | some soft tone, grey, particularly at right |
| Note on foul biting: | grain and dots |
| Print note: | Printed with retroussage. An area has been repaired or changed below the table leg. |
| 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: | 'JK' oval stamp (F. Keppel, Lugt 1023) on recto; MFA (Lugt 282) |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'A 75849' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | '158' on recto |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project |
| ID: | K0230528 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.