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Clothes-Exchange, Houndsditch, No. 1 | Hunterian Art Gallery (46629) |
Number: | 358 |
Date: | 1887 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 162 x 242 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 12 |
Catalogues: | K.287; M.282; W.231 |
Impressions taken from this plate (12) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at left.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Patches of heavy etched shading are added to the interior of the warehouse; fine diagonal lines are added to the open window above the left side of the entrance to the warehouse and to the wall above the sloping roof at right.
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. 17
17: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.