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Troopships

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46956)
Number: 307
Date: 1887
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 128 x 178 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 13
Catalogues: K.319; M.314; W.238
Impressions taken from this plate  (13)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K3190203
Signed with the butterfly at lower right.
The composition is complete.

State 2

Etching: K3190205
With fine horizontal drypoint lines added along the horizon, among the ships; fine right to left drypoint shading (///) is added on the hulls on either side of the square white sail to the right of centre.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K319_01
Cancelled with a diagonal line.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 8

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