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The Fleet: Monitors |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46923) | |
| Number: | 306 | |
| Date: | 1887 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 143 x 223 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.318; M.315; W.239 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at lower left, below the seated passengers.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Very fine drypoint lines are added to the leftmost tall mast at centre; a few faint horizontals, to the right of that mast, over the deck of the ship, are visible under magnification.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8
8: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.