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29

Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Accession no: M15861
State: 5/5

Collection credit:Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Leon Harris in honor of Dr. Bryan Williams  
Image credit:  
Provenance:Given by Leon Harris to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA.  

 

Paper size:220 x 145 mm  
Plate mark size:154 x 89 mm  
Note on size:margins  
Paper trimmed to pmk?:no  
Colour of the paper:cream  
Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc):laid, 'antique'  
Note on the paper:old album page, 'antique' laid  
Tab?:no  
Watermarks:none  
Medium:etching  
Ink colour:black  
Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil:no  
Print tone:  
Note on foul biting:  
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: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:verso, faint and smudged pencil initials, possibly 'E H. G' or '8 J. M'  
Dealers' stock nos:'B 28558' on verso,  
Misc inscriptions by others:'106' pagination in pen at the corner(18th century?) on recto  

 

Source of information:Whistler Etchings Project  
ID:K0230529  

All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.