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Fishing Boats, Hastings

Impression: Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
(2013.348)
Number: 163
Date: 1876/1877
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 255 mm
Signed: butterfly at left (1); replaced with new butterfly (2-3); replaced again (4)
Inscribed: 'Hastings -' at lower right
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 7
Catalogues: K.158; M.155; W.131
Impressions taken from this plate  (7)

STATE

Three states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Impression: K1580101
Signed with a faint butterfly at centre left, near the left edge. Inscribed 'Hastings - ' at lower right.
The composition is complete.

State 2

Impression: K1580203
The butterfly signature is replaced by a larger butterfly.
Faint horizontal drypoint lines are added below the butterfly; drypoint lines are added in the sky, at left.

State 3

Impression: K1580207
Several drypoint lines are added above and to right of the clouds.
In later impressions of this state the drypoint lines in the sky and below the butterfly are wearing down, as in the impression reproduced below.
Impression: K1580205

State 4

Impression: K1580301
The butterfly signature is again replaced by a new butterfly, one without veins on the wings or shading behind the wings.
The drypoint lines in the sky and below the butterfly are almost entirely worn away.

State 4 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K158_01 (plate)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5

5: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.