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Château d'Amboise |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.11) | |
| Number: | 431 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 110 x 68 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 2 | |
| Catalogues: | K.393; M.393 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (2) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower right.
The composition is complete.
State 2
With fine horizontal and left-right diagonal drypoint shading (\\\) to upper left of the round tower, and verticals to the left of its base; there is additional fine drypoint work on the sky between the two pointed towers, on the pointed tower at right and along the roofline to the right of it.
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. 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.