UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Railway Arch, American Square

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1938.1922)
Number: 316
Date: 1887
Medium: etching
Size: 70 x 163 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.268; M.264; W.218
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)

STATE

Four states are known.

State 1

Impression: K2680102
Signed with a butterfly at the left edge, below centre.
The composition is complete.

State 2

Impression: K2680205
The arch is darkened by cross-hatching, making the people and the lantern more distinct; shading is added on the cornice; light drypoint shading is added on the ground in front of the arch and on the wall to the right.

State 3

Impression: K2680202
Shading fills a small white area betwen two groups of figures in the archway at right.

State 4

Impression: K2680204
Additional shading augments the shadows in the upper half of the arch, particularly at right.

State 4 (cancelled)

Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known.