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Dordrecht |  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1943.3.8567) | |
| Number: | 259 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 153 x 230 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 13 | |
| Catalogues: | K.242; M.239; W.200 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (13) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
The composition is complete. The mainsail and jib of the sloop are not shaded.
This state is known only from the detail reproduced by Kennedy; the impression has not been located. 5
5: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 242 I).
State 2
The mainsail and jib are shaded with diagonal drypoint lines.
Impressions vary depending on the mount of burr and retroussage used in printing; the impression reproduced below has distinctive burr.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 6
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 6
6: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.