The Rag Shop, Milman's Row |  Art Institute of Chicago (1938.1911) | |
| Number: | 290 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 96 x 164 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper centre | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 9 | |
| Catalogues: | K.258; M.254 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (9) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper centre, between the flower pot and the window.
The composition is complete; there is a light area above the back of the woman bending, and two light areas to left of the man's leg.
State 2
Fine horizontal shading is added above the man's head in the doorway; light diagonal drypoint lines, running from left to right (\\\), shade the lower part of the area to left of the man's leg; diagonal lines are added above and to right of the bending woman; light diagonal drypoint lines are added to the shadow above and between the two hanging portraits.
State 3
Fine drypoint shading is added on the standing figure in the doorway and the seated man's arm and chest, at left; the box on which he sits is now fully shaded.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
9: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.