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Rue de la Rochefoucault |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46645) | |
| Number: | 434 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 132 x 221 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left of centre | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 8 | |
| Catalogues: | K.419; M.365 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (8) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly between the windows to left of the central doorway.
State 2
The light areas in the windows to right of the butterfly are lightly shaded; the area to right of the bending woman inside the open doorway is shaded, and light diagonal shading is added to the shelving behind her; additional shading crosses the spaces between the two signs and around the seated woman in the oyster shop.
State 3
Shading and cross-hatching between the signs extends to the profile of the seated woman; new light drypoint shading crosses the torso of the bending woman in the doorway and the shadows behind her head.
State 4
Drypoint shading is extended to upper right just above the shoulder of the bending women, and additional shading darkens the area in front of her face to left.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 11
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.