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The Barber's Shop, Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1905.338)  | 
| Number: |  263 | 
| Date: |  1886 | 
| Medium: |  etching and drypoint | 
| Size: |  166 x 242 mm | 
| Signed: |  butterfly at upper right | 
| Inscribed: |  no | 
| Set/Publication: |  no | 
| No. of States: |  2 | 
| Known impressions: |  11 | 
| Catalogues: |  K.271; M.268; W.229 | 
| Impressions taken from this plate  (11) | 
                    STATE
                    
Two states are known before cancellation.
 
                    
State 1
                        
                        
Signed with a  butterfly near the right edge, just above centre.
 
                        
The composition is complete.
 
                     
                    
State 2
                        
                        
Diagonal drypoint shading is added around the heads of the two women in the archway along with short left-right diagonals (\\\) at the edge of the hem of the  woman at left; a dark spot of foul biting appears to the upper right of the street lamp.
 
                     
                    
State 2 (cancelled)
                        
                        
Cancelled with a diagonal line.
                            
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.