Art in a Mirror: The Counterproofs of Mary Cassatt.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Ivinski, Pamela A. | Copyright information

Sharp-eyed readers might have noticed something a bit strange about a number of the illustrations for this article: they appear to have been printed in reverse. If you carefully examine the lower left corner of Plate II, The Banjo Lesson, you will find the work is signed "Mary Cassatt"--but backwards. If you were able to see the picture in person, you would discover that the signature does in fact read backwards. That is because the artworks featured in this article (except for Pls...

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