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Laundresses Carrying Back Their Work

A work made of aquatint and drypoint, from a zinc plate, in black on cream laid paper.
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  • A work made of aquatint and drypoint, from a zinc plate, in black on cream laid paper.

Date:

1898

Artist:

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen

Title

Laundresses Carrying Back Their Work

Place

France (Object made in)

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1898

Medium

Aquatint and drypoint, from a zinc plate, in black on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 34.9 × 25.9 cm (13 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.); Plate: 36.1 × 27 cm (14 1/4 × 10 11/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 30.6 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Louis E. Stern in memory of Carl Schniewind

Reference Number

1957.318

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