Fleur-de-lys Passage |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46904) | |
| Number: | 360 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 185 x 82 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at upper left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 11 | |
| Catalogues: | K.289; M.286; W.233 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (11) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Fine drypoint shading is added to the walls and ceiling of the passageway, to the arch above the window at the back of the passage and behind the crowd in front of it; fine irregular lines are added to the window panes.
State 3
The shading on the wall and ceiling of the passageway is reinforced with additional drypoint lines, resulting in several darker patches, including one that nearly touches the top of the arch.
State 4
New etched shading at the front of the passage now extends down to the heads of the crowd in front of it; etched shading is added on the lower and some central panes of the window at the far end of the warehouse, and fine drypoint veriticals and diagonals are added on most of the window panes; small patches of granular foul biting appear around the figures at lower left and on the roof at upper right.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
9: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.