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Greenhithe |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.364) | |
| Number: | 173 | |
| Date: | 1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 151 x 227 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 25 | |
| Catalogues: | K.165; M.161; W.135 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (25) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Horizontal lines are added in the sky above the horizon, and diagonal lines above them; in the middle distance at left, a small boat sailing towards the viewer has been removed, and the sail of the ship behind it, sailing to right, has been altered and heavily shaded; to right again, in the distance, a tall-masted sailing ship has been largely removed.
State 3
The tall-masted sailing ship in the distance has been redrawn; the sides of three of the rowboats at left are partly shaded by short diagonal lines; the trousers of the second man from left in the nearest boat are shaded; diagonal lines are added in the sky over the shed at far right.
State 4
More diagonal shading is added in the sky; the two rowing boats are more thoroughly shaded; shading on the rowing- and sailing boat in the centre is completed; the boats' reflections are extended
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with long slightly curving diagonal lines.