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La Vieille aux Loques

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
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.