Agnes |  Freer Gallery of Art (1892.9) | |
| Number: | 146 | |
| Date: | 1875/1878 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 229 x 154 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 22 | |
| Catalogues: | K.134; M.132; W.106 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (22) | ||
TECHNIQUE
This is a drypoint, drawn with quite long lines, and irregular bands of vertical shading in the background, and diagonal shading on the figure. The face was touched far more delicately with short, diagonal lines. The few proofs all printed with a strong burr.
PRINTING
All known impressions were printed in black ink, and all but four are from the cancelled plate. Of the four pre-cancellation impressions, there is a proof of the first state printed on off-white laid paper watermarked 'DE ERVEN DE BLAUW' (
) and one second state on ivory 'modern' (post-1800) laid paper with the beehive watermark (), and another second state on cream laid 'DE ERVEN DE BLAUW' paper (). The final state - of which only one impression has been located - is on Asian laid paper ( ).
) and one second state on ivory 'modern' (post-1800) laid paper with the beehive watermark (), and another second state on cream laid 'DE ERVEN DE BLAUW' paper (). The final state - of which only one impression has been located - is on Asian laid paper ( ).It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879. Cancelled impressions are also in black ink, several on laid Van Gelder paper (, , ), and some on medium-weight laid paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark (, ). There may have been a print-run of about 20.
, , ), and some on medium-weight laid paper with a Strasbourg Lily watermark (, ). There may have been a print-run of about 20.