High Street, Brussels |  Art Institute of Chicago (1924.661) | |
| Number: | 343 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 127 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left and right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.358; M.357; W.254 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly to the left of the central upper window and with a second faint butterfly in the open doorway at the extreme right.
There is no shading around the children in the cart; through the second doorway from the right a well-defined window is seen.
State 2
The butterfly in the doorway at far right is now shaded, but the outlines are very faint; the four open doorways are heavily shaded; shading is added on some panes of the large windows; the window seen through the doorway to right has been obliterated; lines are added around the children in the cart.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
7: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.