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Longshore men

Impression: Freer Gallery of Art
Freer Gallery of Art
(1890.5)
Number: 52
Date: 1859
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 153 x 225 mm
Signed: 'Whistler - ' at lower right
Inscribed: '1859 -' at lower right
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 4
Known impressions: 37
Catalogues: K.45; M.44; T.45; W.43
Impressions taken from this plate  (37)

STATE

Four states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K0450125
Signed 'Whistler -' and inscribed '1859 -' at lower right.

State 2

Etching: K0450115
Corrosion is removed; an acid spot to right of centre, in the foreground, is removed.

State 3

Etching: K0450104
All acid drops, including the conspicuous spots at lower left, are removed.
Fine drypoint shading on and around the central man's right eye and on the cheek below it, and curved drypoint lines on the left sleeve of the man at left, fade a little in later impressions.

State 4

Etching: K0450106
Vertical scratches are removed from the hat and face of the pipe smoker at the back.

State 4 (cancelled)

Cancelled with four vertical lines crossed by diagonal lines.
Not reproduced.