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Justice Walk, Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.6) | |
| Number: | 441 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 166 x 242 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.275; M.270 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left, near the top edge.
The composition is complete. The skirt of the woman in the central doorway is without shading, and there are only short parallel etched lines in the background below her right arm.
State 2
Short diagonal drypoint lines shade the right side of the skirt of the woman in the central doorway; short slanting lines cross the existing lines and extend the shadows below her right arm; light drypoint lines augment the shading in both the central doorways.
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. 7
No impression from the cancelled plate is known.
This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
7: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.