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Venetian Court

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1905.201)
Number: 189
Date: 1879
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 293 x 200 mm
Signed: no
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 3
Catalogues: K.230; M.227
Impressions taken from this plate  (3)

STATE

Three states are known.

State 1

Impression: K2300101
There is no signature or inscription.
Most, if not all, shading on the ceiling of the passageway is in etching.

State 2

Impression: K2300202
Considerable drypoint shading is added to the ceiling of the passageway; the figures in the distant doorway are more clearly defined.

State 3

Impression: K2300302
Column bases, steps and other foreground details are sketched in drypoint; a partly drawn standing or leaning figure is added next to the left column; the beginnings of another figure appear to right of the right column.