UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Signed with a butterfly at centre left.

The composition is mostly complete; there is foul biting near the four corners.

The smith inside the doorway has been removed and is replaced by a lightly sketched figure, facing forward, with head bent; other interior details are lightened, including the rafters, the window on the far wall and the hood over a furnace at right; the lower wall and barrel at the left side of the doorway are darkened, and the shape of the barrel is more clearly defined; considerable shading is added to the façade of the building, around the window and doorway; very fine vertical lines now shade the prow of the gondola at left; a series of right to left diagonal lines (///) is added to the reflection below the left side of the doorway.

The lightly sketched figure is removed and replaced by a shorter one, in etching, wearing an apron, holding a tool and facing to the left; there are two cast shadows to his right; the lower edge of the hood of the furnace at right is redefined with darker lines.

A small patch of drypoint diagonals is added near the end of the long reflection to left of centre below the doorway.

New and strengthened drypoint lines are added on the left side of the diagonals near the end of the long reflection below the doorway, slightly enlarging that part of the reflection.

A band of strong diagonal lines is added to the reflections below the right corner of the doorway; a shorter band of less dramatic diagonals is added below the right corner of the doorway; much of the foul biting at the four corners is removed or worn away, most notably at lower left and right, where formerly there were many small spots.

Published in this and later states by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with the Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.

The hair and face of the figure in the window at left are more clearly defined, and there are now horizontal lines above the head, indicating window panes; fine diagonal lines are added to left of the window and another group of fine diagonals extend from the butterfly signature to the prow of the gondola; many heavier lines - mostly diagonals - are added to the shading between the window and the doorway as well as along the right side of the door.

The furnace hood is darkened with new lines; a patch of cross-hatched lines is added to the façade of the building, just above the waterline at right; the reflections below the doorway are darkened and extended with vertical, horizontal and a few diagonal lines.

The impression illustrated has a small ink spot at lower right, which is not part of the etched design.

Diagonal lines are added to the reflections below both sides of the doorway.

Fine left to right diagonal lines (\\\) now cross the right to left diagonals (///) on the left side of the door frame.

A patch of dark horizontal lines is added to the centre of the right side of the window frame; a group of slightly diagonal lines shade the top of the wall at right, and below them, more pronounced diagonals extend the shading on the wall further to the right; a small group of diagonal lines now shade the horizontal band along the waterline, between the gondola and the door frame; short diagonal lines are added to the band of reflection below the centre of the doorway; at lower right, a group of fine longer diagonals extend from the horizontal lines below the door frame toward the edge of the image.

The horizontal band along the waterline, between the gondola and the door frame, is extended further to the left with curving zigzag lines; left to right diagonal lines (\\\) now shade the top of the wall above the left and centre of the doorway.

Cancelled with six diagonal lines.

Cancelled with nine diagonal lines, two at the bottom being crossed.

Cancelled with many diagonal lines, a number of them are crossed.