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Courtyard, Rue P. L. Courier, Tours |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46636) | |
| Number: | 391 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 147 x 81 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly above centre | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 9 | |
| Catalogues: | K.368; M.369 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (9) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at centre, above the door.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Etched shading is added to some panes on all the windows, on the woman's back and skirt, on the cobbles in the left foreground and on the arch supporting the balcony at right; a vertical scratch appears in the foreground, to the right of the cobbles.
State 3
A small patch of right to left diagonal drypoint lines (///) is added to the bottom of the mullion between the two windows at upper left.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one 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.