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Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Victoria and Albert Museum
Accession no: E.20-1905
State: 5/5

Collection credit:  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Percy Thomas, London; bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, January 1905.  
Additional acq. no:EE.2A  

 

Paper size:n/a mm  
Plate mark size:154 x 90 mm  
Note on size:mount stuck down so unable to determine paper size  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid  
Note on the paper:mount stuck down so unable to examine paper properly.  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:n/a  
Medium:etching and drypoint  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:uneven, used more strongly to give suggestion of mass and shadow to basket and pots in foreground, shadow of interior etc  
Note on foul biting:foul biting at lthe ower left corner and lower edge (regular here, possibly from a tool)  
Print note:Retroussage evident (see signature for example); slight reticulation of ink at the right side; burnished out table legs in the foreground.  

 

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:'NAL' partial stamp in black ink crossing platemark, in lower right corner on recto (variation on Lugt 1958)  
Dealers' stock nos:n/a  
Misc inscriptions by others:n/a  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0230520  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.