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Fishing Boats, Hastings |  Colby College Museum of Art, Maine (2013.348) | |
| Number: | 163 | |
| Date: | 1876/1877 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 152 x 255 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left (1); replaced with new butterfly (2-3); replaced again (4) | |
| Inscribed: | 'Hastings -' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.158; M.155; W.131 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a faint butterfly at centre left, near the left edge. Inscribed 'Hastings - ' at lower right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
The butterfly signature is replaced by a larger butterfly.
Faint horizontal drypoint lines are added below the butterfly; drypoint lines are added in the sky, at left.
State 3
Several drypoint lines are added above and to right of the clouds.
In later impressions of this state the drypoint lines in the sky and below the butterfly are wearing down, as in the impression reproduced below.
State 4
The butterfly signature is again replaced by a new butterfly, one without veins on the wings or shading behind the wings.
The drypoint lines in the sky and below the butterfly are almost entirely worn away.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
5: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.