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Elinor Leyland

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46776)
Number: 137
Date: 1874
Medium: drypoint
Size: 214 x 139 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 8
Known impressions: 30
Catalogues: K.109; M.108; T.78; W.95
Impressions taken from this plate  (30)

TECHNIQUE

The drypoint was used for dramatic effect, printed with a lot of ink in many impressions, and manipulated so that the 'burr' created rich effects in the shadows, the ruffles, and around the head.

PRINTING

There was a print-run of over a dozen impressions of Elinor Leyland before cancellation, plus a larger print-run of around 20 from the cancelled plate. No impressions of either the first two or last two states have been located, which is very unusual.
Most known impressions are of the third state, and are printed in black ink on a variety of papers, including light weight cream Japanese paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090308), a lustrous ivory Japan (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090301), thin ivory Japanese paper with long fibres (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090303) and cream Asian laid paper apparently removed from a book (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090302).
Later impressions are on laid paper, such as a light grey paper with a 'Pro Patria' watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090307), and 'antique' (pre-1800) paper removed from a book, with an Arms of Amsterdam watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090502, Graphic with a link to impression #K1090602), as well as ivory (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090402), cream (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090503) and off-white laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090z01).
Cancelled impressions were printed in black ink. One is on cream laid paper with a Strasbourg Lily/WGL watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K1090801); but most are on a medium-weight ivory laid paper (i.e. Graphic with a link to impression #K1090803, Graphic with a link to impression #K1090810).