Elinor Leyland |  Hunterian Art Gallery (46776) | |
| Number: | 137 | |
| Date: | 1874 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 214 x 139 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 8 | |
| Known impressions: | 30 | |
| Catalogues: | K.109; M.108; T.78; W.95 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (30) | ||
TECHNIQUE
The drypoint was used for dramatic effect, printed with a lot of ink in many impressions, and manipulated so that the 'burr' created rich effects in the shadows, the ruffles, and around the head.
PRINTING
There was a print-run of over a dozen impressions of Elinor Leyland before cancellation, plus a larger print-run of around 20 from the cancelled plate. No impressions of either the first two or last two states have been located, which is very unusual.
Most known impressions are of the third state, and are printed in black ink on a variety of papers, including light weight cream Japanese paper (), a lustrous ivory Japan (), thin ivory Japanese paper with long fibres () and cream Asian laid paper apparently removed from a book ().
Later impressions are on laid paper, such as a light grey paper with a 'Pro Patria' watermark (), and 'antique' (pre-1800) paper removed from a book, with an Arms of Amsterdam watermark (, ), as well as ivory (), cream () and off-white laid paper ().
Cancelled impressions were printed in black ink. One is on cream laid paper with a Strasbourg Lily/WGL watermark (); but most are on a medium-weight ivory laid paper (i.e. , ).