Sleeping Child, Ajaccio | ||
Number: | 488 | |
Date: | 1901 | |
Medium: | etching | |
Size: | 153 x 190 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 1 | |
Known impressions: | 18 | |
Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
Impressions taken from this plate (18) |
Sleeping Child, Ajaccio was etched in Ajaccio, Corsica, where Whistler was convalescing from the end of January to April 1901.
Whistler also etched Flaming Forge 490 and Marchande de Vin, Ajaccio 485 at that time.
The copper plate was printed in 1931 by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) at the request of Whistler's sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 1
The copper plate was printed in 1931 by Nathaniel Sparks (1880-1956) at the request of Whistler's sister-in-law Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958). 1
1: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 346, 352.v