UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Dordrecht

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1943.3.8567)
Number: 259
Date: 1886
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 153 x 230 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 13
Catalogues: K.242; M.239; W.200
Impressions taken from this plate  (13)

TECHNIQUE

The composition was drawn with confident sweeping lines, deeply etched, with fine drypoint shading added along the sails to soften the lines in the second state.

PRINTING

The single recorded impression of the first state (Graphic with a link to impression #K2420101) has not been located. Several impressions of the second state are in dark brown ink on laid paper, one with a partial Strasbourg Lily watermark (Graphic with a link to impression #K2420206) and two with unclear water- or countermarks ('X', Graphic with a link to impression #K2420207; 'HIC', Graphic with a link to impression #K2420204).