Etchings Institutions search term: copley society
York Street, Westminster | Art Institute of Chicago (1917.477) |
Number: | 382 |
Date: | 1888 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 128 x 218 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 8 |
Catalogues: | K.270; M.266; W.220 |
Impressions taken from this plate (8) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
The composition is complete.
State 2
The woman at left has been largely removed; drypoint shading in the shop window and doorway at left is mostly 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. 9
9: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.