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Dieppe

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1949.5.265)
Number: 251
Date: 1885
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 51 x 83 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.246; M.244; W.202
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K2460103
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.

State 2

Etching: K2460202
Drypoint shading is added on the butterfly, and on the shoulders of the woman with the parasol; the flagpole above the woman has been widened.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K246_01
Cancelled with crossed diagonal lines.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 6

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