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Alderney Street |  Hunterian Art Gallery (54863) | |
| Number: | 246 | |
| Date: | 1881 | |
| Medium: | etching | |
| Size: | 180 x 113 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', 1881 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 35 | |
| Catalogues: | K.238; M.236; W.196 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (35) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper right, on the wall of the house at right.
The composition is complete. There are three accidental drops of acid in the lower part of the plate.
State 2
Inscribed 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts' at lower left and 'Imp. Cadart.' at lower right.
The three splotches of acid have been removed.
A light, even plate tone has been printed on the paper, and the etched lines extend outside that.
In this state, published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, April 1881, between pp. 366 and 367. 9
9: Duret 1881 .
State 3
The inscription is removed.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 10
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 10
10: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.