Harvard Art Museums > M12107: The Old Rag Picker Prints Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Old Rag Picker (James Abbott McNeill Whistler) , M12107,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 03, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/263032. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number M12107 People James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American (Lowell, MA 1834 - 1903 London, England) Title The Old Rag Picker Other Titles Original Language Title: La Vieille aux Loques Series/Book Title: Twelve Etchings from Nature (French Set) Classification Prints Work Type print Date 1858 Places Creation Place: North America, United States Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/263032 Physical Descriptions Medium Etching and drypoint printed in brownish black ink with considerable plate tone on cream china paper applied to white wove paper Technique Etching Dimensions chine collé: 20.8 × 14.8 cm (8 3/16 × 5 13/16 in.) mounting sheet: 40.2 × 30.3 cm (15 13/16 × 11 15/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Signed: in plate, lower right: Whistler inscription: lower edge of mounting sheet, various graphite inscriptions: : K21II/ R1808c W14 First State Extremely fine on chine collée / WK 16247 collector's mark: verso, lower right corner, blue ink, impression: initials C.B. within rectangular border (Lugt 497) inscription: in plate, lower right of door jamb, drypoint: Whistler [s backwards] inscription: lower edge of plate, to right of center, etched: Imp Delatre. Rue St Jacques 171 collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with accession number written in graphite: THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / 12,107 [Lugt 936] Provenance Recorded Ownership History Clarence Buckingham, Chicago (497), Collector. Edwin de T. Bechtel, (347), Collector, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1947. State, Edition, Standard Reference Number State Glasgow iii/iv Edition Imp. Delâtre Standard Reference Number Kennedy 21; Glasgow 27 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edwin de T. Bechtel Accession Year 1947 Object Number M12107 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Joby Patterson, Bertha E. Jaques and the Chicago Society of Etchers, Associated University Presses (Cranbury, NJ, 2002), p. 38, fig. 21 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
