The Muff |  Freer Gallery of Art (1892.4) | |
| Number: | 131 | |
| Date: | 1874 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 126 x 75 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right (3-final) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.113; M.112; W.126 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Short horizontal lines at the left extend along the contour of the lady's figure.
The edge of the muff at lower right is slightly rubbed down; short right to left diagonals (///) shade the muff below her right hand; diagonal shading is added in the background at right and extended down to her skirt; left to right diagonal and also vertical lines are added along the left edge of the plate; two distinct left to right diagonals are added at the lower right corner.
State 3
Signed with a butterfly at the right edge, below centre.
A rounded shape has been burnished out and the butterfly drawn on this at right; fine lines are added in the shading at the right; fine horizontal shading is extended in the background at lower left.
State 4
Short slanting lines darken the background at the left near the elbow, and at upper right; short diagonal lines are added in the shading, each side of the figure.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with many close-spaced diagonal lines.