It is signed and inscribed 'Epreuve d'artiste' in pencil.Д«ut numbered prints are usually not the only impressions from each addition. This Picasso lithograph, Homards et Poissons, is an artistвЂ™s proof, aside from an edition of 50. So, prints, as multiples, derive their value in part from limited edition sizes. One, from an edition of 1000 that was not hand-signed or numbered, sold for $1,750 whileВ another, from an edition of 200 hand-signed in red crayon and numbered 137/200 in pencil by Picasso, sold for $7,500. In September 2014, we offered two examples of LвЂ™EcuyГЁre. Some prints are published in more than one edition, such as Pablo PicassoвЂ™s lithograph LвЂ™EcuyГЁre, and a recent Swann auction illustrates how edition can affect value. Pablo PicassoвЂ™s lithograph LвЂ™EcuyГЁre was published in editions of 2. Information on edition sizes, paper types and annotations are included in an artist's catalogue raisonnГ©-which is a comprehensive listing of all known works by an artist. Impressions from a single edition are generally printed on uniform paper with uniform signatures and numbering. The numbers represent the edition size, with the bottom number being the total number of prints in the edition and the top number indicating which number it is in the series. These prints often have a pencil signature in the margin, along with a notation or numbering. Each individual print is known as an impression, and each is printed from the same matrix, be it a copper plate, lithographic stone or other device upon which the artist has incised the image. During the sorting of his estate, the American Crisis was placed in a box intended for the dumpster, but one of the heirs spotted it at the last moment.Д®ditioned prints comprise the majority of material offered in Swann's Prints & Drawings department. It had belonged to a collector from upstate New York. This copy narrowly escaped destruction earlier this year. These first three are generally found together, when they are found at all. Paine issued several later numbers of the American Crisis, but some of them appeared only in newspapers. Within a week of the pamphlet's publication, Washington's night crossing of the Delaware turned the fortunes of the American army. Hope succeeded to despair, cheerfulness to gloom, and firmness to irresolution' ( Life of Thomas Paine). Militia-men who, already tired of the war, were straggling from the army, returned. As his contemporary James Cheetham wrote, 'The number was read in camp, to every corporal's guard, and in the army and out of it had more than the intended effect.

Its bracing rhetoric was a much-needed jolt to the demoralized American army.

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