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Nut Shop, St James's Place, Houndsditch

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.486)
Number: 356
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at left and (faint) at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.291; M.285
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K2910102
Signed with a butterfly at left, with traces of another butterfly beneath it.
The composition is complete.

State 2

Etching: K2910202
More diagonal etched shading is added to the three rectangular areas under the awning at right; the cap of the standing man with a beard is more clearly defined; an irregular patch of foul biting appears at the upper right corner.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K291_01
Cancelled with one diagonal line.

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.