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Mrs Leyland, Sr. |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.402) | |
| Number: | 123 | |
| Date: | 1874/1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 229 x 153 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 19 | |
| Catalogues: | K.103; M.104; W.227 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (19) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower right.
The lines of shading above and to the left of the head are vertical.
State 2
Diagonal lines running from left to right (\\\), are added to left of the woman's head; vertical and diagonal lines extend the shadows to right of her head; the outlines and shading on the face have been softened.
Retroussage was used in printing this impression, which blurs details, particularly on the face and cap.
State 3
The trimming on the bonnet at upper right has been rubbed down and redrawn, with additional vertical shading; the face is reworked; short, light lines alter the shading and hair on her forehead; the chin and collar are redrawn; slanting lines are added at left, in the background, and vertical and diagonal lines at the top of the plate.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with light crossed diagonal and zigzag lines across the head and shoulders.