Tillie: A Model |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.540) | |
| Number: | 113 | |
| Date: | 1873 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 235 x 160 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.117; M.116; W.102 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
STATE
Five states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at left centre.
State 2
The drypoint on the legs is fading; some of the scratches and acid dots have been removed or reduced.
State 3
There are six short diagonal lines and smaller scratches at the right, above her back, which may be accidental; the drypoint is very irregular and faded.
State 4
The butterfly is replaced with a new shaded butterfly.
The hair is changed, making the head look more rounded; additional work on the figure includes reinforced outlines, and patches of shading on her limbs and torso, notably on her thigh; a few vertical lines are added in the background above the figure and four long straggly vertical lines above the butterfly; several vertical lines reinforce the shading to right of her legs.
State 5
The features are altered; more vertical and diagonal lines are added in the background to left of the figure, and verticals above her shoulders and behind her legs; new shading suggests her left foot.
The impression reproduced is extensively washed with India ink, suggesting changes to her features, and suggesting her left foot; the foot was not changed but it is not known if the face was altered on the plate before it was cancelled. 8
The impression reproduced is extensively washed with India ink, suggesting changes to her features, and suggesting her left foot; the foot was not changed but it is not known if the face was altered on the plate before it was cancelled. 8
8: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 117 state 4) reproduced this worked proof; no other impression is known.
State 5 (cancelled)
Cancelled with burnishing across the head, and crossed diagonal lines across the figure.