Etchings Institutions search term: dowdeswell
Islands: Evening |  Art Institute of Chicago (1927.1671) | |
| Number: | 204 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 205 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.222; M.219; W.193 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is complete; a few small pits and scratches are visible.
State 2
Prominent spots of corrosion appear at top, centre and lower left; there is a long diagonal scratch from the horizon line to the gondola.
State 3
The spots of corrosion are mostly removed; new slight diagonal lines are added to the water at left, below the taller campanile and sailboat; a series of right to left diagonal lines (///) covers worn lines on the prow of the gondola; several diagonal scratches appear on the water and sky, between the top of the gondola and the right edge of the image.
State 4
New shading darkens and further defines the two sails on the horizon; the curved lines of the gondola prow are reinforced or redrawn; new lines darken the post to the right of the prow.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled posthumously with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
5: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.