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Greenwich Park |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.260) | |
| Number: | 41 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 208 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler.' at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 38 | |
| Catalogues: | K.35; M.34; T.18; W.33 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (38) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed 'Whistler.' at lower left.
The composition is complete. The big tree at right has an irregular patch of diagonal shading just above the centre of the plate.
State 2
There is additional work on the trees in the foreground, particularly the lighter patches on the two big trees, which have new vertical shading and cross-hatching.
State 3
There is additional work all over the plate, particularly on the trees and bushes, and on the shadows on the grass; clouds are added in the sky; two thin wavering lines cross the plate from upper left to right.