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St James's Place, Houndsditch

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46915)
Number: 255
Date: 1886
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 82 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 8
Catalogues: K.290; M.284; W.232
Impressions taken from this plate  (8)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Impression: K2900106
Signed with a butterfly at the top edge, to right of centre.

State 2

Impression: K2900105
Fine, parallel, diagonal shading is added to the large shop window at right; drypoint lines augment the shading on the windows of the central shop.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K290_01 (plate)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 11

11: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.