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Battersea: Early Morning |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.261) | |
| Number: | 157 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 115 x 229 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.152; M.149; W.129 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is mainly complete, in etching.
State 2
Details are added in drypoint, for instance, clarifying the roofs on the buildings; horizontal lines are added on and to right of the dark warehouse/factory to left of centre, and shading covers a white patch on the smaller building to left of it; light horizontal lines behind the houses indicate sky; at far right, the railing and pier of a bridge are added, with the roof of a factory behind, which extends to the right edge; slanting lines indicate masts or a derrick with a rope dangling from them, at upper left; the jetty and small lighters or barges at left have been drawn in more detail but are still indistinct; new areas of drypoint shading are added on the water.
State 3
More horizontal lines are added in the sky, notably around the two chimneys at right; strong short slanting lines are added in drypoint on the lighter, or barge, at left.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with widely spaced crossed diagonal and vertical lines.
The drypoint has faded greatly.