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Gray's Inn Place

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1906.121)
Number: 281
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 127 x 177 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 6
Catalogues: K.297; M.292
Impressions taken from this plate  (6)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Impression: K2970101
Signed with a butterfly at left, just above centre.
There are conspicuous spots of foul biting on the plate.

State 2

Impression: K2970204
Slightly diagonal drypoint lines in both directions fill a blank triangular space on the pavement of the passageway.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K297_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. 6

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