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A complete suite is seven prints with matching numbers. Only two of the seven are signed: the large composite and the small print lettered F.⁶

The six small prints are numbered and lettered, and dealers sell them singly as companion prints. A single small print without a signature can therefore be a genuine part of a suite.^3,7,6

An auction listing for a portfolio numbered 2507/25000 describes six offset lithographs, one signed at lower left and all six signed in the plate, with the Greenwich Workshop blindstamp at the lower right of every sheet.⁴

Bev Doolittle prints in general

The Greenwich Workshop says each of its fine art edition prints is signed by the artist and then numbered consecutively, and that a certificate of authenticity accompanies each edition.^8,9

Dealers describe Doolittle’s classic paper editions as signed and numbered, and one specifies pencil. The number is written as the copy number over the edition size: one dealer’s copy of Season of the Eagle is recorded as 33032/36548.^10,11,12

Small unsigned versions of several pictures exist. The 1986 portfolio Where Silence Speaks reproduced sixteen of her pictures as small plates, among them The Forest Has Eyes, Let My Spirit Soar, Unknown Presence and Woodland Encounter. A dealer who sells them says they are not signed or numbered and are smaller than the original limited editions. Dealers list them with the words “From Where Silence Speaks” or “WSS”.^13,14,15

All identification notes for Bev Doolittle prints