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Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
Accession no: 181-1908
State: 5/5

Collection credit:  
Image credit:Photo © Kupferstichkabinett Berlin  
Provenance:Obach & Co., London; sold to the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, 1908, for £5.10.0.  

 

Paper size:231 x 149 mm  
Plate mark size:152 x 90 mm  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:ivory  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):wove  
Note on the paper:  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:'1820', and a more elaborate inaccessible watermark  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:light residual tone  
Note on foul biting:textured foul biting at bottom; foul biting in lower left corner; fine granular tone across signature.  
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:not on recto  
Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper:not on recto  
Tab signed/inscribed:no  
Note on the tab:  

 

Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding):no  
Notes on inscriptions:  
Collector's mark:verso stamp 'Königliches Kupferstichkabinett'  
Dealers' stock nos:  
Misc inscriptions by others:  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0230536  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.