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The Visitors' Boat | Hunterian Art Gallery (46928) |
Number: | 303 |
Date: | 1887 |
Medium: | etching |
Size: | 178 x 128 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at lower left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 1 |
Known impressions: | 9 |
Catalogues: | K.320; M.313; W.237 |
Impressions taken from this plate (9) |
STATE
One state is known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
Remnants of an earlier subject -- or earlier idea -- are faintly visible beneath the figures below centre on most impressions.
State 1 (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
8: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.