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Bridge, Amsterdam |  Freer Gallery of Art (1906.119) | |
| Number: | 447 | |
| Date: | 1889 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 165 x 241 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 13 | |
| Catalogues: | K.409; M.409; W.267 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (13) | ||
STATE
Five states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The railing on the bridge is incomplete in the centre and at right.
State 2
Light vertical shading is added to the near reflections in the canal.
State 3
The railing on the bridge is complete at the centre and for some distance on either side; several of the figures are drawn and shaded in more detail; the telegraph-frame is defined; the drypoint in the sky has been removed at left and new diagonal and crossed drypoint lines added on both sides of the telegraph-frame; complex additional shading and cross-hatching indicates reflections in the canal.
State 4
More diagonal shading is added in the sky to right of the telegraph frame; diagonal and vertical shading is added on the piers of the bridge and in the reflections, and the reflection of the bridge railing itself is added in broken lines; the shading on two of the women with dark dresses at left has been reduced; the roofs and upper walls of the houses at left are strongly shaded.
State 5
More long fine lines of shading and cross-hatching are added right across the sky; there is new diagonal shading in the water at lower left; the shading under the piers has been lightly rubbed down.
State 5 (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.