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San Giorgio |  Freer Gallery of Art (1887.8) | |
| Number: | 214 | |
| Date: | 1879/1880 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 211 x 308 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at lower left (5) | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Second Venice Set', 1886 | |
| No. of States: | 5 | |
| Known impressions: | 38 | |
| Catalogues: | K.201; M.198; W.167 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (38) | ||
STATE
Five states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
The composition is complete.
State 2
The right side of the cupola and left side of the porch roof on San Giorgio are partly burnished out, along with some details of the façade and dark shading above the deck of the steamship in front of it.
State 3
Several horizontal bands of fine drypoint shading are added to the sky at centre.
State 4
The right side and bottom edge of San Giorgio's cupola are redrawn.
The bands of fine shading on the sky are difficult to see on some impressions.
Published in this and the following state by Messrs Dowdeswell and Thibaudeau with the Twenty-six Etchings (the 'Second Venice Set') in 1886.
State 5
Signed with a butterfly at lower left.
The left side of San Giorgio's porch roof is redrawn, along with details of the façade and objects on the deck of the steamship; the bands of fine shading on the sky have worn away.
State 5 (cancelled)
Cancelled with crossed diagonal lines.