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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M15057
People
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England)
Title
The Rag Gatherers
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1858
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/262564

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching and drypoint printed in black ink on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15.5 × 9 cm (6 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
sheet: 20.8 × 13.1 cm (8 3/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: in plate, lower right: Whistler/1858
  • inscription: verso, lower right corner, graphite: 19xx.43
  • inscription: lower right, ink, etching and drypoint: Whistler [etched] / 1858 [drypoint
  • collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite:
    THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 15,057 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
David Tunick, Sold to Fogg Art Museum, 1971.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Glasgow v/v
Standard Reference Number
Kennedy 23, Glasgow 29

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund
Accession Year
1971
Object Number
M15057
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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