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Little Court |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46619) | |
| Number: | 244 | |
| Date: | 1880/1881 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 127 x 176 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.236; M.232; W.173 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly, on the wall, between the windows at upper right.
The composition is complete.
Published in this and the following state by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with the Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.
State 2
Light diagonal drypoint shading is added on the left leg of the man standing in the doorway.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with irregular zig-zag diagonal drypoint lines across the image.