29Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, ParisYale Center for British ArtAccession no: B2000.5.5 State: 5/5 |  |
| Collection credit: | Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale College 1960. |
| Image credit: | Photo © Yale Center for British Art |
| Provenance: | Given by Janet and James Sale to the Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000. |
| Paper size: | 180 x 125 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 152 x 89 mm |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | laid |
| Note on the paper: | From an old ledger (with reddish lines top and bottom on verso near the edge, 3 ruled horizontal lines at bottom) |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | |
| Medium: | etching |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | light |
| Note on foul biting: | Some grid-like texture. |
| Print note: | Quite a dense effect in the shadows. |
| 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: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | 'c 103-547' on verso |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | no |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0230z15 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.