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The Beach, Hastings |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.253) | |
| Number: | 150 | |
| Date: | 1875/1878 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 160 x 235 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 20 | |
| Catalogues: | K.116; M.100; W.101 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (20) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Horizontal shading is added below the clothes or linen on the line.
Kennedy's description of the second state is incorrect; he mistook retroussage and burr for additional shading on the washing, and on the wall at right. 10
10: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 116).
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with widely spaced crossed diagonal lines.
The impression reproduced is slightly foxed.