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The Silk Dress |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1949.5.539) | |
| Number: | 151 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 209 x 134 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.107; M.115 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
There are no lines in the background.
State 2
Vertical lines indicate a curtain in the background; her hand and the skirt below and to right of it are shaded with a few short diagonal lines; the skirt is lengthened and widened in front; the hem and front edge of the train are partly defined and shaded.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with closely drawn zigzag lines over the head and torso.