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Troopships |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46956) | |
| Number: | 307 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 128 x 178 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 13 | |
| Catalogues: | K.319; M.314; W.238 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (13) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with the butterfly at lower right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
With fine horizontal drypoint lines added along the horizon, among the ships; fine right to left drypoint shading (///) is added on the hulls on either side of the square white sail to the right of centre.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8
8: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.