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Free Trade Wharf |  Freer Gallery of Art (1888.36) | |
| Number: | 171 | |
| Date: | 1877 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 99 x 186 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | Fine Art Society, 1879? | |
| No. of States: | 8 | |
| Known impressions: | 33 | |
| Catalogues: | K.163; M.160; W.134 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (33) | ||
STATE
Eight states are known.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is mostly complete.
State 2
Horizontal lines are added in the sky behind the shipping.
State 3
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
Dark shading is added on the warehouses, particularly those in the distance; diagonal shading is added on the nearest warehouse at lower right; shading is added on the hulls of the ships in the river at left; there is some foul biting on the water; more ships are added in the distance by the wharf to left of centre.
State 4
The barge and small boats near it at left centre have been mainly burnished out; the horizontal shading behind the ships has either faded or been removed.
Published in this state by the Fine Art Society, London, in 1879.
State 5
Horizontal drypoint shading is added above the ships; clouds are added above the big warehouses at right.
State 6
More drypoint clouds and shading are added in the sky at upper left; the drypoint at upper right is fading or has been rubbed down.
State 7
Horizontal drypoint lines are added in the sky, extending the earlier horizontal lines; shading is extended on the hulls of a boat in the river at left and on the ships in the river and by the wharf to left of centre.
State 8
Drypoint lines extend the reflections under the sailing boat at left.