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La Vieille aux Loques (The Old Woman with Rags)

A work made of etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on off-white china paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé).
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  • A work made of etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on off-white china paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé).

Date:

1858

Artist:

James McNeill Whistler
American, 1834-1903

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

James McNeill Whistler

Title

La Vieille aux Loques (The Old Woman with Rags)

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1858

Medium

Etching and drypoint with foul biting in black ink on off-white China paper laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)

Dimensions

Plate: 20.6 × 14.8 cm (8 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25.1 × 18.3 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Lessing Rosenthal

Reference Number

1950.1348

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