Little Greengrocer's Shop, Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1902.128) | |
| Number: | 264 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 71 x 103 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 7 | |
| Catalogues: | K.259; M.255; W.210 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (7) | ||
STATE
Two states are known.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at right, just above centre.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Additions include drypoint lines around the head of the woman at right in the doorway; shading round the bottles at upper right; and cross-lines on the shadow below the shelf, to left of the basket; slanting lines on the lower left pane are almost worn away.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 11
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 11
11: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.