The Seamstress |  Freer Gallery of Art (1909.116) | |
| Number: | 253 | |
| Date: | 1886 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 99 x 66 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at left | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 3 | |
| Known impressions: | 4 | |
| Catalogues: | K.252; M.248; W.206 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (4) | ||
STATE
Three states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at upper left.
The composition is complete.
State 2
The seated woman's head is changed -- her chin is rounded, and her head and hair are enlarged at the top and back; light diagonal drypoint shading is added under her forearm and on the cloth that hangs below her hand; several short diagonal lines are added above the end of her sleeve.
State 3
The seated woman's head appears to have been rebitten, reinforcing and darkening the outline of her profile; a patch of foul biting appears across her forehead along with two small dark spots at her temple and above her ear; the drypoint outlines that enlarged her head are reduced or worn.