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Turkeys

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46847)
Number: 236
Date: 1880
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 209 x 135 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left (2)
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: 'Second Venice Set', 1886
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 42
Catalogues: K.199; M.196; W.165
Impressions taken from this plate  (42)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation, which occurred in three stages.

State 1

Impression: K1990113
There is no signature or inscription.
Published in this and the next state by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with the Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.

State 2

Impression: K1990203
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
With a few short slanting drypoint lines to left of the head of the young man at right.
The butterfly signature and shading behind the young man's head are faint on some impressions.
Published in the Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.

State 2 (cancelled a)

Impression: K1990304
Cancelled with a right to left diagonal line (/) below the skirt of the woman by the well, a faint diagonal between the two groups of turkeys and a faint left to right diagonal between the two windows at upper left.

State 2 (cancelled b)

Impression: K1990306
Further cancelled with two left to right diagonals (\\) across and below the well-head and another faint diagonal between the two windows at upper left.

State 2 (cancelled c)

Impression: K1990303
More emphatically cancelled with crossed diagonal lines.