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
Overall: 8 1/4 × 5 3/4 in. (21 × 14.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert Guggenheim Jr., Class of 1933
PR.961.251.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower right: Whistler
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
Exhibition History
19th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 12-March 25, 1979.
Images of Old Age, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 5-May 26, 1983.
The Image Impressed, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-July 31, 1985.
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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