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St James's Street |  Freer Gallery of Art (1892.20) | |
| Number: | 178 | |
| Date: | 1878 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 275 x 155 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 36 | |
| Catalogues: | K.169; M.165; W.140 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (36) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is complete.
There is a blank margin along the right edge. The plate measured approximately 275 x 155mm.
State 2
The façade to right of the entrance to the palace at the end of the street has been darkened with fine regular shading in drypoint.
State 3
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
A series of parallel horizontal lines are added in drypoint to left of centre above the etched clouds.
State 4
The plate has been cut down at the right. It now measured approximately 275 x 152mm.
In many impressions the drypoint prints lightly, and the clouds in the sky and the butterfly fade away almost completely.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a grid of vertical and horizontal lines.
No impression from the cancelled plate has been located. It is known only from the cancelled copper plate.