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Palaces, Brussels |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46985) | |
| Number: | 338 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 222 x 142 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 16 | |
| Catalogues: | K.361; M.355; W.252 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (16) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Drypoint shading is added on the window panes, under the balcony and at the top of the doorway of the house at left, as well as on a second-storey pilaster between the left and central house, and on a number of window panes on the central house.
There are dark grey stains at upper right on the impression reproduced.
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. 7
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7
7: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.