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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
  • 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]
  • inscription: lower edge of plate, to right of center, etched: Imp Delatre. Rue St Jacques 171
  • inscription: in plate, lower right of door jamb, drypoint: Whistler [s backwards]
  • collector's mark: verso, lower right corner, blue ink, impression: initials C.B. within rectangular border (Lugt 497)
  • inscription: lower edge of mounting sheet, various graphite inscriptions: : K21II/ R1808c W14 First State Extremely fine on chine collée / WK 16247

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
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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

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