Mairie, Loches |  Freer Gallery of Art (1889.7) | |
| Number: | 413 | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint | |
| Size: | 220 x 130 mm | |
| Signed: | butterfly at right | |
| Inscribed: | no | |
| Set/Publication: | no | |
| No. of States: | 4 | |
| Known impressions: | 12 | |
| Catalogues: | K.382; M.382; W.259 | |
| Impressions taken from this plate (12) | ||
STATE
Four states are known before cancellation.
State 1
Signed with a butterfly at right, above centre.
The composition is complete.
State 2
The doorway is strongly shaded; deep shading is added in the open part of the second-storey window, clarifying the figure and lamp within; the upper part of the window is equally divided and filled with shaded panes; the stonework of the balcony is defined.
State 3
Several more panes in the second-storey window, and the panes in the transom window above, are shaded.
State 4
The shading in the second-storey window has been softened and unified by slight rubbing and possibly very fine additional shading in the upper left corner.
State 4 (cancelled)
Cancelled with a diagonal line.
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
No impression from the cancelled plate is known. This is a digital image based on the copper plate. 9
9: A scan of the copper plate was flipped horizontally, converted to greyscale, and colour inverted, with enhanced contrast.