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| Charles Shannon, 'The Toilet' (lithograph, 1906) |
The initials appear in the lower right hand corner of the fan-shaped image.
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| Initials in Charles Shannon, 'The Toilet' (lithograph, 1906) |
However, this is not an original chalk drawing, but a lithograph, signed in the stone. Its title is 'The Toilet' and the edition is very small: only nine proofs were made in sanguine or black. For his 1978 catalogue of lithographs Paul Delaney traced three copies in the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Boston Public Library. It was one of three fan-shaped lithographs that Shannon designed in 1906.
In 1920, George Derry (alias of R.A. Walker) gave a description of the image:
On the left of the fan a woman crouches combing her hair with her left hand, while the line of her right is also raised and follows the outside curve of the fan. A small child is kneeling on the floor and on the extreme right is a pitcher of water.
The auction date is 11 December 2025, the estimate is $400-600 CAD.
