how many of this remarkable colour woodcut were printed is not known ; only about 10 impressions have appeared on the market during the past 20 years; the cutting of the block was the culmination of Orlik's artistry in the medium and it was the largest woodcut he made; each impression was hand water-coloured with the collaboration of Charlotte Rollins, an artist about whom little is known; she is believed to have been English and perhaps a pupil of Orlik's and to have been active in Berlin in the early part of the 20th century; a few hand water-coloured woodcuts of her own are known but her main claim to fame is the hand-colouring of this print; each impression has subtle differences in colouring

printed almost to the edges of the sheet of thin japan paper, with fresh bright colours and
in remarkably good condition; some small stray splashes of the brown colouring in the right and lower margins, one of which covers a small hole in the right margin, well away from the image, which must have been in the paper when printed.