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Quai de Montebello

Impression: Hunterian Art Gallery
Hunterian Art Gallery
(49905)
Number: 385
Date: 1888
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 152 x 230 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 3
Known impressions: 9
Catalogues: K.417; M.366
Impressions taken from this plate  (9)

STATE

Three states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K4170102
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
The composition is complete.

State 2

Etching: K4170103
Diagonal drypoint lines are added between and above the heads of the two women at left.

State 3

Etching: K4170203
Small patches of diagonal drypoint shading are added below the awnings; the drypoint between the two women at left is almost worn away.

State 3 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K417_01
Cancelled with one 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.