The Dam Wood |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.106) | |
| Number: | 133 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 177 x 113 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.145; M.143; W.120 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is complete.
State 2
The shadows of the tree at the right and in the foreground are augmented with short diagonal lines; slightly slanting lines are added to the foliage at upper left, near the left edge.
State 3
Signed with a butterfly at right, below the centre.
The far boundary of the field is defined and the distant trees are made higher, with more trees added in the centre; a building is suggested beyond the field at left; short diagonal and zigzag shading augments the shadows in the foreground; the grass or bushes behind the near trees are enhanced and extended with diagonal shading; more clusters of leaves are added on the upper branches of the near trees and some branches have been added or redrawn.
State 4
The distant trees have been reduced or worn down, and partly merge with several wide-spaced diagonal lines, running from left to right, which cross the right half of the plate, above the butterfly; numerous light diagonal lines are added in the lower part of the sky, at the left.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8
8: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.