Stevens' Boat Yard |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.269) | |
| Number: | 56 | |
| Date: | 1859 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 154 x 229 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 1 | |
| Known impressions: | 24 | |
| Catalogues: | K.48; M.47; T.83; W.48 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (24) | ||
TECHNIQUE
It is lightly drawn both in etching and drypoint, and is unfinished.
PRINTING
This is only one print of the etching before cancellation, a clear impression printed in black ink on cream laid kozo paper ( 
). Then there are three impressions from the lightly cancelled plate, or from a plate cancelled but then having the diagonal cancellation lines almost entirely removed (i.e. , ), including one on ivory laid paper with the 'DEDB' and beehive watermark ().
). Then there are three impressions from the lightly cancelled plate, or from a plate cancelled but then having the diagonal cancellation lines almost entirely removed (i.e. , ), including one on ivory laid paper with the 'DEDB' and beehive watermark (). There may have been a print-run of about twenty from the cancelled plate (i.e. , printed in black ink on cream laid paper with a partial horned crown watermark).
, printed in black ink on cream laid paper with a partial horned crown watermark).