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Old Women |  Baltimore Museum of Art (1996.48.11685) | |
| Number: | 234 | |
| Date: | 1880 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 204 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left (2-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 5 | |
| Catalogues: | K.224; M.221; W.195 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (5) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
State 2
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
Fine right to left diagonals (///) are added to the shading within the doorways; a small patch of slight diagonal shading is added to the lower centre pane in the fanlight above the right doorway.
One impression, reproduced below, is heavily touched with wash within the left window and both doorways.
State 3
Left to right diagonal shading (\\\) is added within both doorways; verticals are added to the panes in the fanlight above the right doorway; the outlines and facial features of most figures are reinforced or further defined; many fine plate scratches and some pitting are visible throughout the image.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled posthumously with two closely-spaced diagonal lines.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
7: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.