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Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession 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.