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The Tiny Pool |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.34) | |
| Number: | 167 | |
| Date: | 1876/1878 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 99 x 66 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right (2-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.173; M.170; W.73 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
STATE
Three states are known.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is basically complete, but the buildings are only shaded by vertical lines; and the foreground barges are not shaded.
State 2
Signed with a butterfly at lower right.
Light vertical drypoint lines are added on the sides of the barges at right, and horizontal lines indicate the reflections of the barges.
State 3
The butterfly and clouds are worn; rows of diagonal lines are added on the tarpaulins covering the barges in front of the posts, and cross-hatched lines to right of the post at left; the stern of the barge between the posts is shaded; the reflections of the central barge are strengthened; short horizontal lines are added on the post at left and on the wharf-post; short diagonal lines shade the side of the nearest vessel across the water; cross-hatching is added on the buildings; sailing ships are added in the distance at the right, and rigging and other details on the other vessels.