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Old Battersea Bridge, No. 2 |  Art Institute of Chicago (1917.494) | |
| Number: | 275 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.311; M.305; W.225 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at right, just below centre.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Fine right to left drypoint shading (///) is added below the low cloud just above the bridge to right of centre and on both sides of the Morgan Crucible Company tower at the right.
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. 9
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
9: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.