Steamboat Fleet, Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.401) | |
| Number: | 155 | |
| Date: | 1875/1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 139 x 215 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 19 | |
| Catalogues: | K.156; M.153; W.223 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (19) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
Between the landing-stage and the nearest boat are parallel lines, and above the boat are three groups of short vertical lines.
State 2
The upper rail of a steamer at left has been almost entirely removed and replaced with lighter lines, giving it a more rounded prow; a rectangular structure in the centre is reduced in width, and a small space is burnished out between the next ship to right and the warehouse above; the reflections of the ships are extended; sweeping horizontal lines are added in the sky; the three groups of vertical lines at right are extended to suggest tall chimneys; fine vertical lines shade the space between the warehouse roofs and chimneys and along the far side of the river, as far as the bridge; more shading is added on the ship in front of the bridge at right.
State 2 (cancelled)
The plate was cancelled with crossed diagonal lines.