Shipping at Liverpool | ||
Number: | 100 | |
Date: | 1867 | |
Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
Size: | 231 x 155 mm | |
Signed: | 'Whistler -' at lower right | |
Inscribed: | '1867 -' at lower right | |
Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
No. of States: | 2 | |
Known impressions: | 22 | |
Catalogues: | K.94; M.94; W.84 | |
Impressions taken from this plate (22) |
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed and dated 'Whistler - / 1867 -' at lower right.
The composition is practically complete.
Before the horizontal and oblique lines between the mast and the stays to right of it.
State 2
Four short drypoint lines are added on the back of the man standing in the left foreground; shading is added on the jacket of the man facing forward; diagonal and horizontal drypoint lines are added in the sky, to right of the mast; horizontal lines cross the distant shipping; the distant hulls and rigging at right are elaborated.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with broad diagonal lines across the entire plate, from left to right and vice versa.