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'Venus' (Nettie Pettigrew)

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(46974)
Number: 363
Date: 1887/1890
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 191 x 267 mm
Signed: butterfly at right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 1
Known impressions: 7
Catalogues: K.343; M.341
Impressions taken from this plate  (7)

STATE

Two states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K3430103
Signed with a butterfly on the pillow at right.

State 2

Etching: K3430007
Fine vertical drypoint lines are added above the model's right hand and the upper part of her body.

State 2 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K343_01
Cancelled with one diagonal line.

No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 4

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