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Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession no: 83.1.27
State: 5/5

Collection credit:Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917  
Image credit:Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art  
Provenance:H. Wunderlich & Co., New York (stock no. a 37015). Given by William Loring Andrews to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1883.  

 

Paper size:250 x 195 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 89 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:Partial watermark of a crown  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light overall tone, particularly the bottom left corner  
Note on foul biting:a little at the edges, particularly some grid at bottom  
Print note:  

 

Whistler's sign on plate:'Whistler' ('s' reversed)  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate:'185...' (it is not possible to see the 8 of 1858,- it just looks like a blurred vertical)  
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:'a 37015' on verso.  
Misc inscriptions by others:'Quartier Mouftard [sic]' on recto, also '33' (thrice), '31' at top right, all on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0230514  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.