UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Sleeping Child, Ajaccio

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49916)
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

1: Martin Hopkinson, 'Nathaniel Sparks's Printing of Whistler's Etchings', Print Quarterly, 1999, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 340, 346, 352.v