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Windows, Bourges | Freer Gallery of Art (1903.166) |
Number: | 398 |
Date: | 1888 |
Medium: | etching |
Size: | 149 x 80 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 3 |
Catalogues: | K.400; M.399 |
Impressions taken from this plate (3) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Etched shading is added to the right open window on the upper storey and to the mullion between the two windows on the lower storey.
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. 11
11: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.