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Doorway, Gray's Inn |  Colby College Museum of Art, Maine (2013.335) | |
| Number: | 289 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 96 x 134 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.300; M.294 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at left, just above centre.
State 2
The interior of the doorway and the door within it, except for the lunette, are shaded with drypoint lines in all directions.
State 3
Not reproduced.
Short vertical and slight diagonal lines are added to the edges of four panes of the window to the left of the doorway.
No impression has been found with these changes, but the new lines are present on the cancelled copper plate.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 5
5: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.