The first drawing will be the key image that is dropped on the other drawings. Miss Ravishing Beauty leads me to a table where a Bavarian limestone awaits me to start my work. A tracing from one of my original drawings has already been placed on the stone. Everything must be clean. Miss R.B. hands me a towel to lean on and she clutches a soft brush to dust the surface of the stone.
Nobody speaks or even breathes, it seems.
Miss R.B. hands me the various pencils as I call for them. I work fast. Depending on how large or complicated the drawing is, I complete my work in about twenty minutes or less. My nervous assistants can breathe now. Frances Theil is one of the most skillful printers in the country.