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A Lady at a Window | ||
Number: | 148 | |
Date: | 1875/1877 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 235 x 160 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at right (3-final) | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 19 | |
Catalogues: | K.138; M.135 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (19) |
TECHNIQUE
It is pure drypoint, drawn with considerable boldness at first, but modified, softened and blurred in the last state.
PRINTING
Only two impressions of A Lady at a Window before cancellation have been located, one printed in black ink on ivory laid paper with the 'DEDB' beehive watermark (
) and the other, the third state, also in black, on an irregular sheet of off-white laid paper
). No impressions of the second (
) or fourth state have been located.



It was published in an album of Cancelled Plates ('Cancelled Set') by The Fine Art Society, London, 1879. There was probably a print-run of about 20 to 24 impressions, printed in black ink on, for instance, ivory laid paper with the watermark 'Van G[elder]' in script (i.e.
).
