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Fish Women, Ostend | Colby College Museum of Art, Maine (2013.349) |
Number: | 349 |
Date: | 1887 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 96 x 133 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 3 |
Catalogues: | K.349; M.349 |
Impressions taken from this plate (3) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left, above a woman's head.
State 2
With left to right diagonal drypoint shading (\\\) added to right of the central woman's right hip.
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. 12
12: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.