29Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, ParisFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.234 State: 3/5 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Probably acquired from Whistler by Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London; bought from Hermann Wunderlich & Co., New York, (receipt, 9 November 1898), by Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, November 1898; bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 200 x 116 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 153 x 90 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | ivory |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | wove |
| Note on the paper: | little debris, even distribution; sheet taken from a book |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black . |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light overall plate tone with distinct wiping marks on doorframe at left. |
| Note on foul biting: | Minor including vise marks, mostly near bottom plate edge, at upper right corner and very faint around plate signature. |
| Print note: | The ink is a dark browny-black, Drypoint (printed with inky burr) used to reinforce many etched lines and for additional shading on floor and walls of interior. |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' ('s' reversed) |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | no |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith records previous existence of inscriptions "S.H." in graphite and "1st Montmatre ?" in red pencil on etching's margin. They were erased 1924.03.29. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0230302 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.