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Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch, No. 1

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46629)
Number: 358
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 162 x 242 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 12
Catalogues: K.287; M.282; W.231
Impressions taken from this plate  (12)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Impression: K2870102
Signed with a butterfly at left.
The composition is complete.

State 2

Impression: K2870205
Patches of heavy etched shading are added to the interior of the warehouse; fine diagonal lines are added to the open window above the left side of the entrance to the warehouse and to the wall above the sloping roof at right.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K287_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. 17

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