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Regent's Quadrant

Impression: Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
(1996.48.18108)
Number: 242
Date: 1880/1881
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 166 x 122 mm
Signed: butterfly at upper right
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 7
Known impressions: 10
Catalogues: K.239; M.235; W.192
Impressions taken from this plate  (10)

STATE

Five states are known before cancellation.

State 1

Etching: K2390102
Signed with a butterfly at upper right, on the beam of the arcade.
The composition is complete.
The top of the arcade at upper left is largely unshaded.

State 2

Etching: K2390202
Additions in drypoint include strong shading above the pillar and on the balusters at upper left, and at the top and bottom left of the pillar; short lines are added to the two groups of figures in the foreground to the right of the pillar.

State 3

Etching: K2390204
Horizontal drypoint shading is added under the arcade.

State 4

Etching: K2390203
More patches of shading are added under the arcade, crossing and augmenting earlier shading; the balusters are shaded more fully with short horizontal lines; the outside line of the supporting buttress above the pillar is indicated; short lines extend shadows on the sides of the pillar; the figures in the foreground have additional details including an umbrella held by a man to right of the pillar, a hat on one woman and fuller skirt on another; the woman with a child, in the centre, to left of the hansom cab, appears to have a dark jacket with rounded collar (possibly fur).

State 5

Etching: K2390201
The drypoint additions have faded or been reduced above the pillar; the ghostly figure to left of the woman with a child has been removed, as have the faint figures behind the two women in the foreground.

State 6

Etching: K2390304
The pillar has been shortened and the figures to left have been removed, as has the group of women in the foreground at right.

State 7

Etching: K2390302
A little girl is walking between the lady and the running boy in the centre.

State 7 (cancelled)

Etching: PS_K239_01
Cancelled with one 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.