Steamboats off the Tower |  Freer Gallery of Art (1898.352) | |
| Number: | 156 | |
| Date: | 1875 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 154 x 225 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 9 | |
| Catalogues: | K.149; M.147; W.114 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (9) | ||
STATE
Four states are known.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper right.
There is one long boat in the foreground; there is no moon; the funnel of the steamer at left is white.
State 2
The boat in the foreground is divided into two smaller boats by a single stroke; two curved lines are added in the bow of the boat at left; a small white area has been burnished out above the wharf and warehouses at right (it is smoke, but Kennedy thought it was the moon). 10
10: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 149).
State 3
Several diagonal lines are added to the shading between the two large steamers; the funnels of the steamers are shaded with horizontal lines; there is more vertical shading on the warehouses at right and horizontal shading extends the ships' reflections.
State 4
Horizontal shading reinforces the ships' reflections.