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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 1247170, member: 56&quot;]Certainly.&nbsp; Burnishers and scrapers can completely erase parts.&nbsp; The ground can be re-applied and new lines added.&nbsp; That&#039;s what artist&#039;s proofs are about... looking at a print, and then making alterations to the plate.&nbsp; If an artist issues prints and then makes changes and reworks the plate over time, you get different &quot;states&quot;.&nbsp; Artists can revisit plates over and over again. </p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes it&#039;s a question of shading or atmosphere.&nbsp; Sometimes it&#039;s more extreme.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hogarth produced this self portrait in 1749</p><p>[ATTACH=full]215835[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>He re-worked the same plate in 1763 to produce a satirical &quot;portrait&quot; of a political opponent named Charles Churchill.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]215836[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There are multiple states for both those prints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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