Longshore men |  Freer Gallery of Art (1890.5) | |
| Number: | 52 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 153 x 225 mm | |
| Signed: | 'Whistler - ' at lower right | |
| Inscribed: | '1859 -' at lower right | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 37 | |
| Catalogues: | K.45; M.44; T.45; W.43 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (37) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed 'Whistler -' and inscribed '1859 -' at lower right.
State 2
Corrosion is removed; an acid spot to right of centre, in the foreground, is removed.
State 3
All acid drops, including the conspicuous spots at lower left, are removed.
Fine drypoint shading on and around the central man's right eye and on the cheek below it, and curved drypoint lines on the left sleeve of the man at left, fade a little in later impressions.
State 4
Vertical scratches are removed from the hat and face of the pipe smoker at the back.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with four vertical lines crossed by diagonal lines.
Not reproduced.