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The Barber's Shop, Chelsea | Freer Gallery of Art (1905.338) |
Number: | 263 |
Date: | 1886 |
Medium: | etching and drypoint |
Size: | 166 x 242 mm |
Signed: | butterfly at upper right |
Inscribed: | no |
Set/Publication: | no |
No. of States: | 2 |
Known impressions: | 11 |
Catalogues: | K.271; M.268; W.229 |
Impressions taken from this plate (11) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly near the right edge, just above centre.
The composition is complete.
State 2
Diagonal drypoint shading is added around the heads of the two women in the archway along with short left-right diagonals (\\\) at the edge of the hem of the woman at left; a dark spot of foul biting appears to the upper right of the street lamp.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 10
10: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.