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Zaandam | Hunterian Art Gallery (49904) |
Number: | 458 |
Date: | 1889 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 131 x 221 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 16 |
Catalogues: | K.416; M.414; W.268 |
Impressions taken from this plate (16) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly upper left of centre, above the clouds.
The composition is complete, done in pure etching.
State 2
The roof and arms are added in drypoint to the large windmill at left; numerous light drypoint lines are added on the clouds.
In later impressions the drypoint faded slightly.
The impression reproduced above has some paper irregularities and creases.
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. 9
9: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.