Etching and aquatint on imitation Japan paper, 1879. 241x350 mm; 9x13 7/8 inches, full margins. Fifth state (of 9), with the aquatint in the skating scene and elsewhere streaked, with a total of 5 dogs (3 in the foreground and 2 in the middle ground) but before the additional text in the lower margin. A superb, dark, richly-inked impression of this scarce, early state. Bourcard/Goodfriend 128.
