The Mustard Vendor (La Marchande de Moutarde)

James Abbott McNeill Whistlerca. 1856

Details

Title: The Mustard Vendor (La Marchande de Moutarde)
Creator: James McNeill Whistler
Date Created: ca. 1856
Subject Keywords: business, genre, labor, vendors
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, lower left: “Whistler”; inscribed in plate, lower left: “Imp. Delâtre. Rue St. Jacques 171”
Set or Series Title: Twelve Etchings from Nature (The French Set)
Print State: Fourth of five states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1947
Materials & Techniques: Etching on laid paper. Watermark: Unidentified fragment
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: The set “Twelve Etchings from Nature,” known as the “French Set,” was published in 1858; in 1886, 200 impressions of plate were reissued for F. Wedmore’s “English Etchings” on old Whatman paper dated 1814; additional impressions were made on 17th century Dutch paper
Dimensions: 1903
Bibliography: Kennedy 22 iv/v
Associated People: Created by James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903)
Accession Number: 1947.D1.277

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