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Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

New York Public Library
Accession no: MEZAP
State: 5/5

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © New York Public Library  
Provenance:Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York; listed by E. G. Kennedy as owned by the Lenox Library, 1910 (Lenox Library became part of New York Public Library, 1911).  

 

Paper size:197 x 119 mm  
Plate mark size:154 x 89 mm  
Note on size:very irregular on right side  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:buff  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:very browned at edges  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:no  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light overall tone  
Note on foul biting:Particularly at the edges right and bottom.  
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:' "Quartier Moufetard" '  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:'S. P. AVERY / COLLECTION' (Lugt 41) stamp  
Dealers' stock nos:no  
Misc inscriptions by others:'17² [underlined]' recto; '1858' vertically to right of platemark on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0230538  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.