The Long House (The Dyers, Amsterdam) | ||
Number: | 453 | |
Date: | 1889 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 166 x 271 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly to upper left of centre | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 6 | |
Known impressions: | 14 | |
Catalogues: | K.406; M.408; W.266 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (14) |
STATE
Six states are known before cancellation.
State 1
![Impression: K4060102 Impression: K4060102](../../images/etch_t/K4060102_001.jpg)
Signed with a butterfly on the lower part of the shed, above and to left of centre.
The composition is complete.
State 2
![Impression: K4060103 Impression: K4060103](../../images/etch_t/K4060103_001.jpg)
Some of the reflections, and the small bridge at far right, have been modified by rubbing down and redrawn.
State 3
![Impression: K4060201 Impression: K4060201](../../images/etch_t/K4060201_001.jpg)
A woman holding a child in her arms stands behind a fence at right centre, and the small window panes to her left have been partly shaded; there is additional shading on the brickwork of the long building; the hides or cloths hung up at left have faded or been lightened; the window pane to right of the cloths has new shading; fine diagonal shading is added on the woman in the doorway; shading is added on the foundations of the building at left and under the small bridge at far right; some lightening of the reflections is combined with additional light shading and cross-hatching on the reflections.
State 4
![Impression: K4060203 Impression: K4060203](../../images/etch_t/K4060203_001.jpg)
The hide or cloth hanging at left has been lightened; the lower pane of the window to left of the woman standing in the doorway is lightened in the lower part.
State 5
![Impression: K4060z01 Impression: K4060z01](../../images/etch_t/K4060z01_001.jpg)
Patches of shading are added in the middle of the cloth at left and on the window panes to right of it.