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| Number: | 311 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 133 x 97 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.327; M.321; W.244 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
The composition is complete; there are many dots and flecks of foul biting at the centre.
State 2
Drypoint lines are added at the horizon.
State 3
Many dots of foul biting at centre are worn away or removed; light drypoint shading is added on and around the larger ships at left and right; pale left to right diagonals are added to the sky at centre, just above the horizon; outlines of clouds and slight left to right diagonal shading is added at upper centre.
State 4
Additional drypoint lines are added to the stern of the foremost ship on the left.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a 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.