Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Tom Sawyer Suite, 1970-71
The complete suite, comprising of 8 lithographs in colors on Arches paper, each signed in pencil and numbered 47/200 (there were also 50 artist's proofs), with title page, colophon also numbered '47' and table of contents, published/printed by Raymond & Raymond, Inc. and Circle Gallery, Ltd./Mourlot, Paris, with full margins, lacking original beige linen portfolio.
each sheet 25 1/2 x 19 3/4in (64.8 x 50.2cm)

With some pale yellowing in extreme sheet edge on one print, the title page, colophon and a few other sheets with a short diagonal crease in the lower corner, some light surface soiling, soft handling creases, title page with a vertical crease in the upper right corner.

Titles include:
'Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?'; 'He spied the beetle; the drooping tail lifted and wagged.'; 'Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's pretty stiff!'; 'The master's arm performed until it was tired and the stock of switches notably diminished'; 'He meow'd with caution once or twice'; 'She calculated his capacity as she would a jug's and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls.'; 'Both boys were looking very pale and miserable, now.'; 'Tom, Tom, we're lost! we're lost!'.