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Gray's Inn Place | Freer Gallery of Art (1906.121) |
Number: | 281 |
Date: | 1887 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 127 x 177 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 6 |
Catalogues: | K.297; M.292 |
Impressions taken from this plate (6) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at left, just above centre.
There are conspicuous spots of foul biting on the plate.
State 2
Slightly diagonal drypoint lines in both directions fill a blank triangular space on the pavement of the passageway.
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. 6
6: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.