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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.
[The lithograph sold at 200 CAD.]