Etching, 1905. 126x175 mm; 5x7 inches, wide margins. Edition of 110 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin. From New York City Life. Morse 134.
Sloan produced his New York City Life series of ten etchings from 1905-06, recording the lives of the city's tenement dwellers. Sloan found these prints difficult to market to buyers, as they were not accustomed to seeing such honest depictions of everyday life. The current etching was one of the works rejected from an American Watercolor Society exhibition in 1906 for indecency.
