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Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch, No. 2

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.484)
Number: 359
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 229 x 153 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.288; M.283
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

STATE

Three states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Impression: K2880102
Signed with a butterfly near the left edge, below centre.
The composition is complete. The glass panels immediately below the horizontal framework are unshaded.

State 2

Impression: K2880103
There are a number of drypoint additions: to the face and hat of the standing boy at centre front, to the shading above his head and between the figures above that shading, and to the torso of the man holding a piece of cloth, behind and to right of the boy.

State 3

Impression: K2880203
The column at left is more heavily shaded with etched lines, and there is more vertical and diagonal shading on the framework above the columns; vertical drypoint lines are added along the upper row of glass panels; a number of curving vertical and diagonal marks at upper centre appear to be foul biting.

State 3 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K288_01 (plate)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 15

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