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Temple Bar |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46786) | |
| Number: | 175 | |
| Date: | 1877 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 214 x 137 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.162; M.159; W.133 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
STATE
Three states are known.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The Bar and buildings are faintly outlined in drypoint.
State 2
The Bar is more defined, still in drypoint, with architectural details outlined and casting shadows, statues in niches above the arch, and stones round the arch added; the wall of the house at left is extended; buildings are seen through the arch; long horizontal lines run across the front of the arch, indicating wooden structural supports.
State 3
The composition is completed in etching, with windows, statues, pilasters and other architectural details added to the Bar, pedestrians and a horse-drawn omnibus in the arched passage underneath, and a lamp-post in front of the Bar at right; other additions include the head of a horse in the foreground and figures in the street at right; a horse and cart at left; roofs at upper left and a church tower in the distance at right.
The impression reproduced is foxed.
A later impression - reproduced above - has a long diagonal scratch across the foreground, crossing the horse's head (
).
).State 4
Several curving lines and a patch of horizontal lines indicate clouds in the sky.
The impression reproduced is badly foxed.