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Doorway, Sandwich |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46916) | |
| Number: | 323 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 96 x 134 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.307; M.302 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly in the window at right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
The light areas in the doorway are shaded with fine drypoint lines.
State 3
The butterfly is shaded; etched cross-hatching shades the interior, and lighter diagonal drypoint lines shade the table; vertical lines partly shade two of the lower panes in the window at right.
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. 6
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.