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Hôtel de la Croix Blanche | Art Institute of Chicago (1917.584) |
Number: | 395 |
Date: | 1888 |
Medium: | etching |
Size: | 177 x 126 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 3 |
Catalogues: | K.373; M.373 |
Impressions taken from this plate (3) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
More etched shading is added to the tower doorway and the doorway at right.
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
7: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.