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Market Women: Turkeys

Impression: Library of Congress
Library of Congress
(FP-XIX-W576, no. 386)
Number: 424
Date: 1888
Medium: etching
Size: 102 x 68 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper centre
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 1
Catalogues: K.386; M.386
Impressions taken from this plate  (1)

STATE

Two states are known, the second only known from the cancelled plate.

State 1

Impression: K3860102
Signed with a butterfly near the upper edge, just to right of centre.
The composition is complete.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K386_01 (plate)
An eye is added on the face of the woman standing in the centre. The plate is cancelled with a diagonal line.

No impression of the second state nor from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7

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