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Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch | Art Institute of Chicago (1917.486) |
Number: | 356 |
Date: | 1887 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 128 x 178 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at left and (faint) at lower right |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 5 |
Catalogues: | K.291; M.285 |
Impressions taken from this plate (5) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at left, with traces of another butterfly beneath it.
The composition is complete.
State 2
More diagonal etched shading is added to the three rectangular areas under the awning at right; the cap of the standing man with a beard is more clearly defined; an irregular patch of foul biting appears at the upper right corner.
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.