J.H. Woods' Fruit Shop, Chelsea |  Freer Gallery of Art (1888.20) | |
| Number: | 327 | |
| Date: | 1887/1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 98 x 133 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.265; M.261 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation, the final state being known only from the cancelled plate.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
According to Mansfield, 'The butterfly, in outline, is suggested in the central lower pane of the window.' 8 However, if so, it is well camouflaged in a pile of fruit.
8: Mansfield 1909[more] (cat. no. 261).
State 2
Short, fine drypoint lines are added on the lower part of the window-pane at left along with more shading around the woman in the centre.
State 3
Considerable new etched shading is added around the woman in the centre; the heads of the figures to left and right of that woman are redefined.
State 4
Not reproduced.
The woman at the centre and the shadowed area around her have been removed.
No impression of this state is known. It is known only fom the copper plate. A digital image from the plate is reproduced below.
State 4 (cancelled)
The plate is cancelled with one diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
9: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.