Arched doorway with figures and a tree |  Hunterian Art Gallery (55586) | |
| Number: | 489 | |
| Date: | 1901 | |
| Medium: | unbitten; drawn with an etching needle through ground that has been removed | |
| Size: | 210 x 286 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 1 | |
| Catalogues: | K.-; M.-; T.-; W.- | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (1) | ||
TECHNIQUE
This plate was not bitten. The archway, the tree and figure to the left of it, possible faint figures within it and other indistinct details are just visible on the copper plate. This faint work appears to have been incised with an etching needle when the composition was drawn through an etching ground; however, the ground has been removed.
PRINTING
According to a sheet of paper in the Hunterian Art Gallery, this plate was 'taken by Robert Cox for printing;' the sheet is initialled and dated 'RS.12.VI.69,' apparently indicating that the proof was pulled in 1969. 2 This, the only known proof from the unbitten plate, was printed in black ink with some irregular tone on off-white wove paper. It is a really poor impression, from a plate that was not actually ready or properly prepared for printing.
2: Hunterian Art Gallery.