1970s Norman Rockwell “Dead Cat” Tom Sawyer Suite 7/200 Limited Edition Collotype, Unframed

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A highly collectible hand-numbered 7/200 color collotype from Norman Rockwell’s celebrated Tom Sawyer Suite, offered here unframed and preserved from … Read more A highly collectible hand-numbered 7/200 color collotype from Norman Rockwell’s celebrated Tom Sawyer Suite, offered here unframed and preserved from long-term storage in its original mailing tube.

This classic scene depicts Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in one of the most memorable episodes from Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Rockwell captures the boys’ fascination, mischief, and dead-serious childhood logic with the humor and narrative precision that made him one of America’s most beloved illustrators.

Originally created for the 1936 Heritage Press edition of Tom Sawyer, the illustration was later issued as a limited fine-art collotype. This example was printed in Austria and is hand-numbered 7/200 in pencil at the lower left. It bears Rockwell’s plate signature at the lower right and retains the printed “Printed in Austria” notation along the lower margin.

Collotype is a specialized printmaking process known for its subtle tonal range, painterly texture, and ability to reproduce fine surface detail. This is not a modern poster or standard offset reproduction, but a limited-edition fine-art print from the Tom Sawyer series.

The paper also retains an embossed publisher’s blind stamp near the lower corner, visible in the photographs.

Artwork details:
Artist: Norman Rockwell
Title: Dead Cat
Series: Tom Sawyer Suite
Medium: Color collotype on paper
Edition: 7/200, hand-numbered in pencil
Signature: Plate-signed lower right
Printer: Arthur Jaffe Heliochrome, Vienna, Austria
Publisher/Distributor: Circle Gallery
Date: circa early 1970s
Country of manufacture: Austria
Presentation: Unframed; stored rolled in a mailing tube for many years

Dimensions:
Paper size: approximately 20 in. W × 26 in. H
Image size: approximately 15 in. W × 20 in. H

Provenance:
From a private Somis, California estate, where a group of Norman Rockwell Tom Sawyer collotypes was collected together. This example was never framed because an Artist Proof version of the same image was selected for display; this numbered impression remained stored separately in its mailing tube.

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