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Double Doorway, Sandwich

Impression: Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
(1917.492)
Number: 322
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 70 x 110 mm
Signed: butterfly at left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 4
Catalogues: K.306; M.301
Impressions taken from this plate  (4)

STATE

Three states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K3060102
Signed with a butterfly at left, just below centre.

State 2

Etching: K3060103
Diagonal drypoint shading is added to the left of the window seen through the central door.

State 3

Etching: K3060202
Panels are indicated on the door at the left; extensive etched shading is added to the two open doorways; a barrel is defined within the shop doorway; shading is added on the lower panes of the shop-window; mouldings are added on the pediment, and shading is added to and extended on the pediment.

State 3 (cancelled)

Cancelled with one diagonal line.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 7

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