Old Woman in the Rag Shop (La Vieille aux Loques), from The French Set
James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, 1834 - 1903
1858
Etching on laid paper
Impression: 10 3/8 × 5 13/16 in. (26.4 × 14.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 8 3/8 in. (26.4 × 21.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Nancy D. and Lane Woodworth Goss, Class of 1955
PR.983.54
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Whistler Watermark
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
Provenance
Collected by Nancy and Lane Woodworth Goss given to present collection, 1983.
Catalogue Raisonne
E. Kennedy, The Etched Work of Whistler, San Francisco, 1978, no. 21. H. Mansfield, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chicago, 1909, no. 21.
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