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Steamboats off the Tower | ||
Number: | 156 | |
Date: | 1875 | |
Medium: | drypoint | |
Size: | 154 x 225 mm | |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right | |
Inscribed: | no | |
Set/Publication: | no | |
No. of States: | 4 | |
Known impressions: | 9 | |
Catalogues: | K.149; M.147; W.114 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (9) |
STATE
Four states are known.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper right.
There is one long boat in the foreground; there is no moon; the funnel of the steamer at left is white.
State 2
The boat in the foreground is divided into two smaller boats by a single stroke; two curved lines are added in the bow of the boat at left; a small white area has been burnished out above the wharf and warehouses at right (it is smoke, but Kennedy thought it was the moon). 10
10: Kennedy 1910 (cat. no. 149).