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Quai de Montebello | Hunterian Art Gallery (49905) |
Number: | 385 |
Date: | 1888 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 152 x 230 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at upper left |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 3 |
Known impressions: | 9 |
Catalogues: | K.417; M.366 |
Impressions taken from this plate (9) |
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Diagonal drypoint lines are added between and above the heads of the two women at left.
State 3
Small patches of diagonal drypoint shading are added below the awnings; the drypoint between the two women at left is almost worn away.
State 3 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
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.