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Cottage Door |  Freer Gallery of Art (1888.1) | |
| Number: | 252 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 68 x 100 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.250; M.246; W.204 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
State 2
The bonnet on the head of the girl at the right is shaded, and her features are more distinct; the eyes and forehead of the child in the centre are shaded by her hat, her hair and hat brim are more detailed, and fine diagonal lines cross the earlier lines on her breast and shade her skirt to left; the leg of the girl at left is shaded with short diagonal lines; drypoint shading is added and extended between the two girls in the doorway.
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. 14
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 14
14: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.