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Little Greengrocer's Shop, Chelsea | Freer Gallery of Art (1902.128) |
Number: | 264 |
Date: | 1886 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 71 x 103 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at right |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 7 |
Catalogues: | K.259; M.255; W.210 |
Impressions taken from this plate (7) |
STATE
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at right, just above centre.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Additions include drypoint lines around the head of the woman at right in the doorway; shading round the bottles at upper right; and cross-lines on the shadow below the shelf, to left of the basket; slanting lines on the lower left pane are almost worn away.
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. 11
11: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.