[The fitting] – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures [The fitting] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[The fitting]
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Mary Cassatt's *The Fitting* shows a woman being fitted for a garment, a quiet domestic moment of the kind she returned to often in her prints. It is the fifth state of a plate from *Her Set of Ten*, a series of color prints she made in 1891 using drypoint, soft-ground etching and aquatint. The impressions were printed by the artist with a Paris printer, M. Leroy. Cassatt had long admired Japanese woodblock prints, and the flat areas of color and close, unposed figures in the set show that influence.
| Created / published | [1891] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : col. drypoint, soft-ground etching and aquatint ; 37.5 x 25.7 cm. |
| Notes | [Her Set of ten, no. 5] Breeskin, 147 (fifth state). Signed in pencil with note: Imprimée par l'artiste et M. Leroy. Ex coll.: H. G. Whittemore (Lugt 1342). DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 99. Purchase; Pennell fund. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,047 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221929 |
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