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Shipping at Liverpool |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.330) | |
| Number: | 100 | |
| Date: | 1867 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 231 x 155 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler -' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1867 -' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.94; M.94; W.84 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed and dated 'Whistler - / 1867 -' at lower right.
The composition is practically complete.
Before the horizontal and oblique lines between the mast and the stays to right of it.
State 2
Four short drypoint lines are added on the back of the man standing in the left foreground; shading is added on the jacket of the man facing forward; diagonal and horizontal drypoint lines are added in the sky, to right of the mast; horizontal lines cross the distant shipping; the distant hulls and rigging at right are elaborated.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with broad diagonal lines across the entire plate, from left to right and vice versa.