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360 APPENDIX.
tub, pail, and fore-ground below them much lighter; the
boy's napkin darker. The butcher's cap, in which was
** For our country," has now " pro tatria," and is not
striped; the open-hack chair in which he was seated, in the
first state, is litre filled up to a cushion-back. The words
" sure votes," and doubtful, in the attorney's book, are re-
engraved ; both leaves are shadowed, and the centre line
from top to bottom, which in the first state was with the
sure votes, is here transferred to the doubtful .* two pearly
drops are trickling from the parson's forehead. Four win-
dows are added to a house seen out of the open casement;
a pair of scissars suspended to the methodist tailor's apron-
string, and the pen, stuck under the wig of the fellow who
offers him a bribe, which in the first state was "with lite fea-
ther .outwards, is now properly altered, to the quill out-
wards. There are several other little variations in the
shadows, which seem generally iatended to bring the print
into harmony; and I think have their effect, for it is more
still, and in better keeping than in the first state.
Third stale. The cross strokes of the graver on the
words ** the whole," in the inscription, nearly burnished
out. One hat added in the corner, and another placed on
the bench, near the scabbard and gloves. The face, knot,
etc. of the little girl near the candidate, darkened ; and the
hair of the fellow smoking him, much shadowed, and ren-
dered less woolly. Character of face of the boy pouring
punch altered and hair made much darker.
Fourth state. The words " the whole" again inserted ;
the W is different, and engraving not so good as in the first
state : the shadow on the top of the wainscot close to the
landscape, again restored. A strong shadow, on the lower
part of the round table in the corner, burnished down.
* Fiftb,whicti is the present state; the words "the whole**
again completely effaced by black lines. The masses some-
what stronger, and the shadows on the round table in the
corner, especially on the edge, made darker.
tub, pail, and fore-ground below them much lighter; the
boy's napkin darker. The butcher's cap, in which was
** For our country," has now " pro tatria," and is not
striped; the open-hack chair in which he was seated, in the
first state, is litre filled up to a cushion-back. The words
" sure votes," and doubtful, in the attorney's book, are re-
engraved ; both leaves are shadowed, and the centre line
from top to bottom, which in the first state was with the
sure votes, is here transferred to the doubtful .* two pearly
drops are trickling from the parson's forehead. Four win-
dows are added to a house seen out of the open casement;
a pair of scissars suspended to the methodist tailor's apron-
string, and the pen, stuck under the wig of the fellow who
offers him a bribe, which in the first state was "with lite fea-
ther .outwards, is now properly altered, to the quill out-
wards. There are several other little variations in the
shadows, which seem generally iatended to bring the print
into harmony; and I think have their effect, for it is more
still, and in better keeping than in the first state.
Third stale. The cross strokes of the graver on the
words ** the whole," in the inscription, nearly burnished
out. One hat added in the corner, and another placed on
the bench, near the scabbard and gloves. The face, knot,
etc. of the little girl near the candidate, darkened ; and the
hair of the fellow smoking him, much shadowed, and ren-
dered less woolly. Character of face of the boy pouring
punch altered and hair made much darker.
Fourth state. The words " the whole" again inserted ;
the W is different, and engraving not so good as in the first
state : the shadow on the top of the wainscot close to the
landscape, again restored. A strong shadow, on the lower
part of the round table in the corner, burnished down.
* Fiftb,whicti is the present state; the words "the whole**
again completely effaced by black lines. The masses some-
what stronger, and the shadows on the round table in the
corner, especially on the edge, made darker.