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Agnes

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1892.9)
Number: 146
Date: 1875/1878
Medium: drypoint
Size: 229 x 154 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Cancelled Plates', 1879
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 22
Catalogues: K.134; M.132; W.106
Impressions taken from this plate  (22)

TECHNIQUE

This is a drypoint, drawn with quite long lines, and irregular bands of vertical shading in the background, and diagonal shading on the figure. The face was touched far more delicately with short, diagonal lines. The few proofs all printed with a strong burr.

PRINTING

All known impressions were printed in black ink, and all but four are from the cancelled plate. Of the four pre-cancellation impressions, there is a proof of the first state printed on off-white laid paper watermarked 'DE ERVEN DE BLAUW' (Graphic with a link to impression #K1340102) and one second state on ivory 'modern' (post-1800) laid paper with the beehive watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K1340103), and another second state on cream laid 'DE ERVEN DE BLAUW' paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1340104). The final state - of which only one impression has been located - is on Asian laid paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1340202 ).
It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879. Cancelled impressions are also in black ink, several on laid Van Gelder paper (Graphic with a link to impression #K1340302, Graphic with a link to impression #K1340303, Graphic with a link to impression #K1340311), and some on medium-weight laid paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K1340304, Graphic with a link to impression #K1340310). There may have been a print-run of about 20.