[Original Art for SIGNALS Limited Edition Edward Gorey LITHOGRAPH #4 (Gazebo)]

[ca. 1994]. Very good. Edward Gorey. Image 8 x 10 inches, sheet 10 1/4 x 12 inches. Pen and ink on paper. Signed with "EG" monogram. Traces of pencil guide lines in margins, artist's corrections in white tempera. Pencil measurement inscription in lower margin. Light stains in margins (largest 3/8 x 1/4 inches), most visible in lower margin; tiny stains (not exceeding 1/12 inch) in lower portion portion of image. Very good to near fine.

Between 1992 and 1997, the PBS-affiliated SIGNALS gift catalog issued ten limited-edition lithographic prints from art commissioned from Edward Gorey. The present drawing, made for LITHOGRAPH No. 4 (first published (truncated) in 1994), later traveled in ELEGANT ENIGMAS, the first international exhibition of Gorey's works, curated by Karen Wilkin. It appears as the final image in the exhibition's catalogue and as the sole image on the rear panel of its dust jacket.

Eventually entitled "Gazebo," the drawing presents a 19th-century séance taking place outdoors in winter. Objects float around the participants—among them, leeks, steaks, a trumpet, an open book, a Japanese fan, and smoked glasses—as ghosts and an alligator carrying children on its back skate on the surrounding ice and a butler arrives with tea. (Inventory #: 942)