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Nursemaid and Child

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1943.3.8421)
Number: 42
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 99 x 134 mm
Signed: 'Whistler' at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 35
Catalogues: K.37; M.36; T.21; W.34
Impressions taken from this plate  (35)
Nursemaid and Child probably dates from 1859. It shows figures sitting in the grass, and trees in full leaf, so it probably dates from between May and September.
Other figure studies of the period include Annie, Seated [32], Reading by Lamplight [37], Greenwich Pensioner [40] and Arthur Haden [66] (the last two being dated '1859' on the plate).