The stocking – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of The stocking. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mary Cassatt's drypoint *The Stocking* shows a mother bending over to pull a stocking onto a young child's leg, a quiet domestic moment she returned to often. Cassatt, an American who worked mostly in Paris, dated this print to 1890, when she was developing her printmaking alongside her paintings. Drypoint is made by scratching lines straight into a copper plate with a needle, and the raised burr from that scratching gives the printed lines a soft, velvety richness. This impression carries a handwritten French note in ink, and its catalog number places it in Breeskin's listing of Cassatt's prints.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : drypoint. |
| Notes | Drypoint by Mary Cassatt, 1845-1926. Breeskin, 129 (5th state). Ink note: quatre vingt sixième. D. Charles L. Freer Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mothers; Art. Works; Z62 Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,155 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172459 |
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