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Wych Street, London | Hunterian Art Gallery (46785) |
Number: | 176 |
Date: | 1877 |
Medium: | etching |
Size: | 216 x 139 mm |
Signed: | no |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 12 |
Catalogues: | K.159; M.156; W.132 |
Impressions taken from this plate (12) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
A large lamp shows clearly in the middle distance, at right.
State 2
The lamp has been erased or worn away; the area around the lamp appears to have been cleaned up; scratches in the sky, to upper right of the houses at left, have worn down.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 13
13: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.