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The Fleet: Monitors

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46923)
Number: 306
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 143 x 223 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 12
Catalogues: K.318; M.315; W.239
Impressions taken from this plate  (12)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Impression: K3180105
Signed with a butterfly at lower left, below the seated passengers.
The composition is complete.

State 2

Impression: K3180202
Very fine drypoint lines are added to the leftmost tall mast at centre; a few faint horizontals, to the right of that mast, over the deck of the ship, are visible under magnification.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K318_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. 8

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