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St James's Place, Houndsditch | Hunterian Art Gallery (46915) |
Number: | 255 |
Date: | 1886 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 82 x 178 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 8 |
Catalogues: | K.290; M.284; W.232 |
Impressions taken from this plate (8) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at the top edge, to right of centre.
State 2
Fine, parallel, diagonal shading is added to the large shop window at right; drypoint lines augment the shading on the windows of the central shop.
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.