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Plate 100
That a thick thread, passing from the distaff to the woman's right hand, is "seen only in" the Mellon copy (Census, p. 110) does not signify a variant state of the plate. In the color facsimile the orange thread appears as an integral part of the plate. But in the original we can see that the whole area was printed an even color and that the thread was created, on this copy, by addition of a black wash (making a corridor of the light brown print, for the thread) and reddish orange streaks.
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