The Old Clothes Dealer, Cairo
1879
Artist, American, 1835 - 1915
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching in black on laid paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. S.R. Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts)
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Dimensions
image: 23.81 × 16.51 cm (9 3/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
plate: 27.78 × 22.86 cm (10 15/16 × 9 in.)
sheet: 38.58 × 26.99 cm (15 3/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2449
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Boston, Massachusetts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1881; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1880
Koehler, S.R., ed. The American Art Review 1, no. 7 (May 1880): p. 296.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: S J Ferris aquaforti 1879; lower right in plate: J.L Gérôme Pinxt.; lower center support in graphite by unknown hand: "The Old Clothes Dealer, Cairo." / by Gérôme / Etched by S.J. Ferris. 1879.
Wikidata ID
Q77011796