Swinburne |  Freer Gallery of Art (1903.256) | |
| Number: | 108 | |
| Date: | 1873/1877 | |
| Medium: | drypoint | |
| Size: | 280 x 190 mm | |
| Signed: | no | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | 'Cancelled Plates', 1879 | |
| No. of States: | 2 | |
| Known impressions: | 18 | |
| Catalogues: | K.136; M.134; W.110 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (18) | ||
STATE
Two states are known before cancellation.
State 1
There is no signature or inscription.
State 2
Heavy lines are added around the head; jagged and curving lines extend his hair at left and right and short lines reinforce shading on face and beard; the background shadows are extended with diagonal lines at left, at the top, and at right.
State 2 (cancelled)
Cancelled with numerous diagonal lines over the head and shoulders.