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Rue des Bons Enfants, Tours |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46986) | |
| Number: | 392 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 149 x 80 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 10 | |
| Catalogues: | K.372; M.372; W.320 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (10) | ||
STATE
Five states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly near the left edge, above centre.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Diagonal drypoint lines are added between the two figures in the doorway and above the figure in the second-storey window.
State 3
Diagonal drypoint lines are added in the upper right corner of the doorway and above the figure in the second-storey window.
State 4
Etched shading is added to the doorway, to the first- and second-storey windows, between and below the legs of the central figure in the doorway and across the right side of the skirt of the woman at right in the doorway.
State 5
A band of right to left diagonals (///) is added across the top of the second-storey window.
State 5 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one 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.