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Swinburne | Freer Gallery of Art (1903.256) |
Number: | 108 |
Date: | 1873/1877 |
Medium: | drypoint |
Size: | 280 x 190 mm |
Signed: | no |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 18 |
Catalogues: | K.136; M.134; W.110 |
Impressions taken from this plate (18) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
State 2
Heavy lines are added around the head; jagged and curving lines extend his hair at left and right and short lines reinforce shading on face and beard; the background shadows are extended with diagonal lines at left, at the top, and at right.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with numerous diagonal lines over the head and shoulders.