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La Vieille aux Loques |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46706) | |
| Number: | 27 | |
| Date: | 1858 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 207 x 147 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler' at lower right (2-final) | |
| Inscribed: | 'Imp. Delatre. Rue St. Jacques. 171.' (3); partly erased (4) | |
| Set/Publication: | 'French Set', 1858 | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 113 | |
| Catalogues: | K.21; M.21; T.9; W.14 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (113) | ||
The copper plate has not been located. It was a different size from any other plate.
The smallest plate in the 'French Set' is Little Arthur
[8] at 81 x 54 mm, and Street at Saverne
[14] is the largest, at 209 x 159 mm. La Vieille aux Loques is the second largest plate, at 207 x 147 mm.
It was cancelled with a horizontal and a vertical line, crossed by diagonal lines from corner to corner, which all intersect in the centre of the plate.