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Renaissance Window |  Freer Gallery of Art (1894.21) | |
| Number: | 417 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 179 x 128 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.390; M.391 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at left, near the edge, to left of the larger window.
State 2
The umbrella and the face of the woman holding it are heavily shaded; the face of the woman at left is fully defined; shading in the open parts of both windows is augmented; short diagonal lines are added on the arch and on the wall above.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a 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.