Sleeping Child, Ajaccio |  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
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