Etching of a dim cellar with heaped rag sacks, a seated woman at right, a sleeper sprawled in the foreground, and a small lit window at upper left.

The Sleeping Rag Vendor, 1902 etching

A dim cellar fills with heaped sacks of rags, lit by a small barred window at upper left where a figure leans. At right a seated woman in a shawl hunches over a bundle, while a sleeper lies sprawled across sacks in the foreground. Dense dark hatching builds the shadows in this black-ink etching on cream paper.

Artist: Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Date: 1902
Medium: Etching in black on cream laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1398 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1902).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster

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