The Hangman's House, Tours |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.124) | |
| Number: | 393 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 135 x 99 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 6 | |
| Catalogues: | K.376; M.376 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (6) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower left, to the left of the children.
The composition is basically complete.
State 2
The children's faces are slightly changed in drypoint: the girl's hairline is lower on her forehead and her eyes and jawline are redrawn; the boy's eyes are lightly shaded and there are two short, curved lines from his cheek bone to his left ear.
State 3
The children's faces are changed again in etching: their facial features are redrawn, and the girl's hair is changed; new shading is added to the girl's blouse and between the boy's legs; patches of vertical etched shading are added at upper left and right, on both sides of the ornate arch; considerable etched shading is added to the semi-circular frieze above the doors and to the triangular area above it.
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. 20
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 20
20: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.